Care is Coming (2021)
Care is Coming is an artist book of poetry and prose grappling with personal themes of brain trauma, chronic pain, and what it means to be in a body. More specifically, I write about my experience with a car accident, resulting in a traumatic brain injury and bodily pain which will affect me for the rest of my life. My negative experience with doctors resound as echoes in a number of the poems. This book was created as a sort of acknowledgement, an ode if you will, or perhaps even a love letter, to my pain. This is not to champion pushing through pain, but rather to hold hands with it, to look it in the eyes. To go on in partnership with Pain.
bookboard, mulberry paper, ink transfer, leather, cotton thread, linen, embroidery, poetry + prose
Acidity can make you temperamental (2020) ~ book version
This version of Acidity can make you temperamental was focused on the reader’s experience, physically. The intent was to explore how the narrative might change in a physical space and how the experience of intimacy may shift.
Materials used include handmade paper, bookbinding thread, and printer paper. (the original version of this project is located in the ‘Performance + Activity’ tab)
Performance Book (2019)
Expanding upon the performative suggestions from A Book of Time and Rhythms, this project was fully submerged into the waters of performance. Each page speaks to the reader/performer in an intimate way, giving them a choice to respond. The sentences reflect on awareness of the body in conjunction with the book, with time, and with others. The book takes the reader outside the pages and gives them a chance to interact with the people surrounding them.
Handmade paper (abaca + flax), typed on typewriter, pencil, metal screws, metal clasp.
A Book of Time and Rhythms (2019)
This project was focused on the sound and rhythm of words. The first half of the book is writing. The second half is the writing depicted as rhythm. Each dot represents a syllable. Not bound because time is fluid and ever changing.
Handwritten in pen on found paper + cheesecloth, metal clasp.