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Sol Duc Memories
Sol Duc Memories
Bamboo Prints – view a
Bamboo Prints – view b 10 5/8″x11.5″x 3.25″hand hewn bamboo spine and book rest; hand beaten gampi paper printed with various parts of the bamboo plant, branches, cross cuts, splits. splits of bamboo holding the pages in the bamboo spine with a tension binding; waxed linen bookmark with bamboo rings.
Hidden – view a 12″x18″x4′
Hidden – view b 12″x8″x4 artist-made flax papers, pigment, ink
Shrinkage II 14″x9″x6″ artist-made flax papers, pigment
Still Bookmark 16″x6.75″x3″artist-made cotton rag paper, metallic thread
Layers of My Father 25″x15″, framedscreen print on handbeaten gampi paperpartially exposed pages of original text about the different layers of my fathers life
Threats to Life and Beauty 36″x30″x27.5″vintage umbrella, needlelace, handpainted, handembroidered organzaStretching the idea of the book, this piece reads initially as a beautiful rain umbrella with alternate panels of color and intricate needle lace while intervening panels reveal an embroidered list of sites of damage due to acid rain pollution:Westminster Abbey (acid rain corrosion)London (fog+acid rain+ soot=acid fog)North America (polluuted water ecosystem, dying lakes)Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia (dying forests)Glasgow, Ayr (overexosure to lead=plumbosolvency)
