Carousel

It's 2022 now. Hello! Where did the time go??? 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 have rung out, and the past years have spun out like a colorful carousel whirling around.  But remembering back to the past 4+ years, the perception was more of a colossal elephant lumbering across the sandlot, filling the space with its majesty and stature, heavy and full of...something significant. It was a time of conflict, for sure, and the unprecedented, but also of common, ordinary things that in the moment felt like blessings. It's been a time of drama, sadness, challenges, a lot of change. As life always is, though maybe not so pointedly. For this book artist, the time has been recorded in creations of books and boxes, and life. Since the book-a-week activity on this blog was postponed many years ago, here are some photos of the bookish events of the past few years...

Jan. 4, 2018: Carving a linoleum block

'Peace Flags' (yellow flag): letterpress poem, block print, atlas page, vintage stamps, bandaids, mica, gold & linen thread

Papermaking Workshop at Blam! studio; June, 2018

Gutenberg press at Plantin-Morteus Museum, Antwerp; Aug. 2018

Panel set 'Pavillion' carousel book and
inspiration postcard (1920's Angers, FR) 

inside 'Pavillion' carousel book
for TRAC (Toe River Arts Council) show 2019

'Pavillion' carousel book in etui (drop sides) box
with paste paper board cover paper; July 2019

Bubblewrap prints of plexiglass
covers for 'Fun House' in 
"The Library" box; Penland Auction 2019

Letterpress illustrations 'The Tale of the Blueberries' for 
"The Library" box; Penland Auction 2019

"The Library" 4 original books in a box,
letterpress, print, paste papers, marbled papers;
edition of 10; 2019

Blam! Studio Print class; Collograph prints;
March, 2020

Blam! Studio Print class; Polyester plate lithographs of 
1800's French Natural History book; March, 2020

Masks; April, 2020

Paper; April, 2020

Watercolor illustration for "A Day in the Life of Corey & Zack",
letterpress edition of 10; April, 2021

Box order for City of Raleigh Arts Commission Awards;
May, 2021

Installation for 'A Book is a Space' show at 
Pullen Arts Center; July-Sept. 2021

Halloween haunted house pop-up cards event
at Pullen Arts Center, Oct. 2021

Paste paper holiday wrapping; Dec. 2021

Postcard exchange with Bookarts group;
January card; 2022

Word Table for Pop-up book class; Feb. 2022

Marbled paper; 2022

Paste paper class at Blam! studio; June, 2022

Derive' poem books, based on Fluxus concept;
6th session Penland Sch. of Craft; 2022
(found mica, kozo, file folders, Penland clay as paint)

Inside a Derive' poem book;
imagery painted with Penland clay; Aug. 2022
Fluxus criteria: non-traditional materials, muted color, abstract; frantic

Mail art from Penland: Sam's Day 3;
August, 2022

Mail Art from Penland:
Lily's Day 2; 2022

Mail art from Penland: Day 6;
2 letters a day for 10 days; 2022