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Winter Journal



Altered antique volume of essays by Addison and Steele, circa 1974;
114  pages so far;  4" X 7" X 3"; (in progress)





The old volume of essays is painted on, collaged, and sewn with silk threads and glass beads.  The images incorporate the engraved rectangular frame of each page and often leave the authors' words and phrases as legible text.  The  complex pictorial spreads address a multitude of topics, each suggested by the titles of the essays.  The natural disintegration of the materials gives the visual narrative of the book a subplot about aging, preciousness and death.

Will I finish the work before it self destructs or I die?

Exhibited:
Hinckley Foundation Museum, Ithaca, NY, 1979;
AART Gallery, Oakland, CA,1979;
Traction Gallery, Los Angeles,1982;
Long Beach (CA) Museum of Art, Home Show,1983;
Amfac Plaza, Honalulu, HI,1984;
Otis/ Parsons School of Design Art Gallery, Los Angeles,1984;

Collection of the artist