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moment, moment, moment.
MOMENT(um) (or) just a moment, is the last book I made for the spring contemporary book binding class. However, I have the feeling I will be making this book for the rest of my life, because it begins to touch on how I want to tell stories, sequentially, visually, combining and overlapping layers of information. … Continue reading -
a book about time.
This is a modified flag structure that was prompted by a book called Einstein’s Dreams. (Read it if you haven’t, it’s lovely, I’ve been obsessed ever since.) … Continue reading -
john cage, chance and me.
This book was the first one I made at Mills. It was made right around John Cage’s 100th birthday. We each got assigned a random page from the dictionary the same letter as our first name. Then, we had to use that page somewhere in the book. We also had to think about John Cage and his ideas around creating work using chance operations. Very simply put chance operations is … Continue reading
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some beginnings + some endings
This book was a project I did for a graduate poetry workshop with Stephanie Young and 11 other amazing poets. For anyone who hasn’t ever been a workshop type situation, it’s an intense space sometimes. It’s the place you go to workshop and talk about your writing every week with people in what is supposed to be a safe place. Writing in this kind of formal capacity is new for … Continue reading
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home to here
The second book made this semester was a structure invented and taught by our professor, Julie. It was fun because we started off by making a visual timeline based on any specific period of time in our lives, and we didn’t know what we were going to use it for. It was basically a long strip of art we created that we then went back and cut into panels to … Continue reading
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9 months, 6 books
Full disclosure: any faithful readers might have noticed by now I am not a blogger. Posting every 8 or so months is probably not good practice by industry standards. Alas one must be honest and I just don’t have it in me to do anything daily, well except make things and eat. But I do know what I am: a maker and someone who loves to documents things so this … Continue reading
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if you like books…
There are a few new books about books out in the world that you just might be interested in if you’re into that sort of thing. The first one is called 1,000 Artists’ Books: Exploring the Book as Art by Sandra Salamony. I have two pieces in this book … Continue reading -
Fab Fab Fab!
It’s FAB Wednesday here at roughdrAft y’all! We’ve got this great sale going on over at Fab.com today through Friday. … Continue reading -
explore. plan. leverage.
I love getting jobs where cool companies like this are helping other people reach their full potential. … Continue reading -
1000 little decisions: lines and lines.
hey y’all. I’ve been making these photographs of book covers I made this winter for the spring line at anthropologie. … Continue reading
