PROJECTS
BIG, BAD, BEautiful Browns
Big Bad Beautiful Brown is a collaborative art project which will stretch over several years. I have made 200 books: 100 in paper, 100 in cloth. I’ve painted, dyed, stenciled, rubbed, written, stamped, and drawn on the pages. The book you get has these textured pages as background so you can begin without starting with the dreaded blank page.
POLITICAL ART
During the Bush administration I would wake up and my first thought was that we were still bombing people in Iraq. Our country was in the grip of fear and censorship like I had never seen before. It made me feel crazy…
zombies & BUDDHAS
Why zombies? That is what I wanted to know. My sons and their friends talked about them incessantly, creating elaborate scenarios for evacuation and defense when they attacked…
DEATH & OTHER LIVES
"Death and Other Lives" is a book you walk through. There are 200 panels with art on both sides: drawings, pulp paintings, collages, prints, calligraphy and gravestone rubbings…
BOOK ILLUSTRATION
These illustrations are from books of poetry and science fiction/fantasy. They are done in pen and ink.
Silhouettes
I love cutting silhouettes. I like to embed them in fresh sheets of handmade paper.
MAPS
I created this series of maps for the book World Enough and Time by James Kahn, my husband.