BOOKS
Romantic Subtractions is my first book project. It is part of Collective Generation, a project of French publisher, Gervais Jassaud, for which he combines the work of a poet and a visual artist in a book that he has designed. I have made the artwork for 12 books that contain the poetry of Jerome Rothenberg. Each one is different and made by hand.
The books are printed on Rives BFK paper, and the artwork is made with fabric scraps, metal staples, acrylic paint handmade paper that I made while a resident at Dieu Donne papermill. The form of the book is a site to which I respond – a long and meandering one, in which each surface has two sides. The process of stapling materials to the page creates a different but corresponding image on each side of it.