Album

Album is a digital and mixed media artist's book (digital images, digital and copier texts, various papers, matboard, velvet, metal title).

Incorporating both "high tech" and "low tech" processes, Album juxtaposes text and imagery pertaining to the friendship between Baltimore patron of the arts, Alice Warder Garrett, and the author, Edith Wharton.

It's size is 9" x 12" x 3" closed; 8 14" x 11 1/2" each page), with 36 double-sided digital and transparent pages. Of these, 18 are double-sided pages w/fold-outs, there is one single page w/fold-out. It includes 16 digital prints and 13 fold-outs, 14 pages of translucent text and other collaged text, and 6 pages of printed text excerpts from A Backward Glance, Edith Wharton.

The Project:

Ten artists who make artists books and ten who never have were invitied to participate in this project. In response to a book in the Garrett Library of Evergreen House, Johns Hopkins University, we made a new artist's book for the exhibition. The book I chose was in inscribed edition of A Backward Glance from Edith Wharton to the Garretts.

I researched the archives, finding letters, photographs, and diaries, and scanned and manipulated the imagery into digital collages of scenes from Evergreen layered with Wharton/Garrett correspondence.The work that resembles a turn-of-the-century photo album.