"Gazing...Gazing...Upwards Towards..."
"Gazing...Gazing...Upwards Towards..." is an accordion-structured artist's book measuring approximately 5"h x 3.5"w x 3.25"d closed. It opens to a visual narrative where ancients contemplated their destinies by gazing to the stars and the heavens to predict their future. This is a portable altar for the spiritual voyager to inspire and instruct which path he/she may take. Celestial bodies and mythic constellations retell of glorious lives and events that inspired all ancient explorers.
Placed at Special Collections, Newark Public Library
Placed at Special Collections, Newark Public Library
"The Gathering"
"The Gathering" is another visual narrative styled artist's book measuring approximately 7"h x 5"w x 3.5"d detailing the gathering of the butterflies in Spring to begin the cycle of birth and death again for the coming year. A mirror reflects back the viewer's image and birds ponder the balance and gleam of new things, ideas and plans. Telescopes gaze at the heavens for the changing of the seasons and skies to signal the ever-present cycling of creation, destruction, birth and death. $325.
