Big Books
Delighted to have a chance to show off these big boos at a variety of events in 2023 & 2024 including the Nashville Free Poetry Fest, Southern Festival of Books and Vanderbilt's Porch Fest.
The form of the book has always held intrigue for me in its combination of contrasting properties: openness and concealment; immateriality and heft; sequential limitation and the promise of experiential fulfillment when the last page is read. Like a house with many rooms, the form of the book offers a multitude of relationships for discovery. After years of making paintings and sculptures, I began making books in 2017 with the dream of utilizing the book as a super-structure that could contain any other artwork. I started to make books at a larger-than-human scale, large enough to fill my gaze and immerse my sensations. The goal is still to slow down the viewer to allow awareness of the surface and the larger story taking place across the pages. With the cover as a door and each new page as a doorway into an ever-expanding interior of passage and reflection, I have imagined the book as the ultimate space for experiential artwork.