RAVEL Collection: FRAY square fabric journal

About the RAVEL collection:


Working on RAVEL was an amazing opportunity to continue my visual exploration into shapes. For this collection, I focused on the modern Roman alphabet (aka the 26 letterforms from A—Z ) as the primary shapes I wanted to work with. RAVEL became a collection of prints about these shapes coming together and falling apart. While creating, my main questions circled around a.) How can I break letters apart into new, interesting forms and also b.) Is it possible to obscure these already imbued symbols so much that they ‘lose’ their meaning? The letterforms in RAVEL run the gamut from being clear & legible to fractured, to finally some forms completely disintegrating into their environments.

According to Merriam-Webster, a contronym is a word having two meanings that contradict one another, so finding the word RAVEL was perfect for bringing all these ideas together in ‘collection’ form. Ravel means both to tangle and to untangle, which is a wonderful way to think about these visual shapes in space.

About this journal:

Size: 5.625 W x 6 H (inches) (almost square!)
This book has 100+ pages and contains a mixture of the following papers:
Cougar 28lb. unlined white smooth text weight paper
vintage lined grade school matte text weight penmanship paper
Neenah Environment 24lb. brown text weight paper

The journals are covered with fabric from my third collection, RAVEL, in collaboration with Free Spirit Fabrics.
This book is covered with the fabric pattern, Fray.

All books are one-of-a-kind, 2023.