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for this project we had to deconstruct a book somehow - I chose an old book from powell's that was about california. I suppose I was feeling pretty homesick at the time. I cut out all of the California's and San Francisco's and put them in a lil jar.

detail on the california jar

white flowers

white flowers project - two different books using the same text: white flowers by mary oliver. I used beeswax and dried flowers, fancy papers, book board, citra-solv transfers.

The first book is a magic wallet book.

The second book is a very very long accordion book. I like the second book more I think. It has the right delicate and fragile quality I was after.

Maps!

A book I made at OCAC last semester. Going with those Maya Lin vibes. I soaked construction paper in olive oil to make it translucent - however, it also made the whole book smell like shit later, so - lesson learned. Still, pretty content with the way it turned out.

Well it's definitely been much too long since my last post. I've been studying Book Arts at Oregon College of Art & Craft this past semester and so I've been pretty busy making and crafting things. Unfortunately I don't have a camera...Well I did bring my digital camera but somehow left my charger for it in California. Anyway, here's a painting I've been working on for my Design 2D class final next week:

Oxbow Final Project

This was my final project at Oxbow. It was a sort of memory house - a place for nostalgia and remembering, a place to piece histories together. It was cozy and warm inside and resembled a little cottage from the outside. I projected home movies through a hole in the roof onto an inside wall. Among this footage were clips from my own childhood in California, as well as scenes from before my mother was born in New York.

The little memory house was recycled after the final show. It didn't seem right to carry it with me, I needed to leave it behind.