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As a newly juried
Torpedo Factory Associate Artist, I am eager to share the
book arts with a broader audience. Artist books offer collectors
an opportunity to interact with art in a hands-on and intimate
manner, while objects such as journals, boxes, handmade paper
cards, and sculptures bring beauty to everyday life.
My current work is personal, with an interest
in exploring things that have remained unspoken, secret or
denied. The book arts as medium offer abundant opportunities
to experiment with tactics to reveal some secrets and keep
others. I try to create structures that can accommodate what
I can't yet say alongside what I have to say. Layers, translucency,
boxes, hidden compartments, storytelling, images, and staged
revelation are my current forms of expression.
I challenge myself - and by extension
anyone who interacts with my work - to risk saying what we
most deeply want to say, while respecting the need for privacy
when it matters. Journey, choices, recovery, redemption and
forgiveness are current themes.
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