Artist Books & Editions

Book of Changes series- 1991

I created handmade books based on Asian sutra formats as a Workspace Artist at Dieu Donné Papermill (New York, 1991) . I photosilkscreened lung tissue imaged by Scanning Electron microscopy onto rice paper.

Each image is juxtaposed with its form, digitally abstracted and painted with gouache on rice paper. The two renderings were embedded side-by-side into handmade paper.

Kama Sutra Series - Khoj Workshop, Modiginar, India, 1998

In 1998, I created a series of palm leaf books at the Khoj International Workshop in Modinigar, India. Each artist was asked to use something from the surrounding area. I chose to explore working with the Asian palm leaf book. Traditional palm leaf books incorporate images with text. In Delhi I found publications of the Kama Sutra along with the Starr Report and American self-help books.

At the Khoj residency, I gathered palm leaves from trees and cured the leaves for the books. I cut and pasted images of the Kama Sutra with text from the Starr Report and self help books. The narrative reflected my recent experience of divorce along with the ongoing questions about sexual relationships prompted by Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.

Joss Series 1992

I printed Scanning Electron images of cells onto Joss paper. These images were manipulated, extracting the edge of each form into digital line.

I was inspired by sights I’d seen in Singapore where the past & present collided in the late ‘80’s.

Parts of this series was exhibited at Nature Morte New Delhi in 1998.