Books without pages—pages without books
I had always wanted to do an exhibitions that was about books. I have a very loose conception of what constitutes a book. Sometimes that is just an object within a book shape. Sometimes it is a series of drawings- some would call this a portfolio but I prefer to think of them as books.
This installation took place at the G Gallery in Houston, TX. The crutch of the exhibition was the sheets of a book hanging in the air like a floating book and then two tables of books for sale both empty bound books, and several books of varying traditionality about them.
Open concept book
Paper pulp books in various colors and installed in various dimensions.
Fabric book detail
You see to read
Found wooden letters onto wood book form. A book about dyslexia.
Fabric book with suitcase
Made in memory of my mother.
Various white textiles collaged into a book, found suitcase.
Little Florida Woman
Found rubber figure on top of beeswax leaves,
on top of handmade paper rounds.
Reading
Plaster cast in an edition of ten.
Drawings in open book
20” x 20”
Book of cherry bombs
Paper pulp, string, acrylic paint (this was made tongue in cheek long before 9/11 and the escalation of terrorist bombings in the U.S. It was done in remembrance of my brothers throwing cherry bombs into a pond to blast frogs out of the pond, a typical boyhood type of violence.
Yellow book
Beeswax over a found book with cadmium yellow pigment.
Nosebook
Carved wooden nose in a book container.
The nose is a subject with many literary references.
