2024 | 12 W x 18 H
accordion / concertina binding
artist book
What I love about this book is it’s desire to be unrestrained and a bit unhinged in both subject and construction. When making this object for the singularities series I was trying to get back to a way of creating that was easily embodied in my early years of binding when I didn’t know the ‘correct’ ways to put things together. I wanted this book to be bound & assembled with a kind of reckless abandon that only comes with a freedom from rules or the gatekeeping that education & experience sometimes puts on our imaginings.
The pages are made from anything and everything that happened to be in my life, studio, or space at the time of making: letterpress & riso prints, fabric & shape experiments from other projects, erasure poetry, collaged pieces…all assembled into a narrative of that particular moment. PS. Check out the binding, it’s super fun and made from a used USPS tyvek envelope turned into an accordion.)
The origin text used for the erasure poems in this book come from: To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963 by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore and A History Of Richmond California: The City That Grew From A Rancho by Joseph C. Whitnah.
