Why Art Books?

Earlier this year, I committed to making one handmade art book every month for six months.

This commitment was sparked by my interest in the process of book-making, accompanied by a desire to dispatch during a half-year hiatus in the woods after five years in Seattle. Conceptual drives that wiggled into the work included invitational perception, auto-archival practice, and intimate communication made tactile.

The handmade book form became a way to stitch together what prior felt like disparate parts, to blend art and language into contextual “wholes” that can be held, shared, experienced, touched. It became a way to map connections already present in my work, to communicate them as representative of the organic connective tissue between moments of on-page creation.

The thrill of a project like this is inviting someone else into the other side of the time-stitched conversation. I invite you to subscribe!