My artist books use my printed imagery in novel ways, that give me the chance to present my prints in a hand-held manner.  This format offers me the chance to experiment and explore the print as an object, the print as a page, as a single unit and a spread, relating to adjacent images. My books display my prints in a “readable” way, as I create permutations of my letter forms seen page by page or as an extended, complete image.

By removing segments of my images, the book format provides a way to see through multiple pages, heightening the viewer’s preview and recollection experiences.  It also expands upon my use of different surfaces,  enable me to use transparency and to accentuate specific forms.

I have thrived on the playful quality of my making my books, creating tactile, interactive objects that use aspects of my prints in new, and quite different directions.