Recently I shared my set-up for teaching classes using zoom on instagram. Some people were curious how the set-up looks when I am live, sitting at the table and demonstrating. I asked my boyfriend to help me take a picture of myself.
Category Archive for 'Bookart'
Looking for Matthew – six poems
Posted in Bookart, Looking for Matthew on Feb 27th, 2015
Pictures of the clam-shell box containing six books, one per poem. my Smith-Corona typewriter I have been working since more than two years on a new book. A serious of books. Six in total. Each of them featuring one of Bill Denham’s poems from ‘Looking for Matthew’. The selection was made by Bill when he […]
Germany Inside Out
Posted in Bookart, Exhibitions, Tunnel Book on Jun 19th, 2014
Twelve German-American Artists share their views on Germany today. Exhibition June 20 – July 25, 2014, Opening Reception June 19, 6:30PM. Goethe Institut San Francisco, 530 Bush Street @ Grant Street, left of the China Town Gate. My piece is a tunnel book with a collaged image of ‘Norddeutschland’ – ‘North Germany’.
PCBA announced upcoming Members Show 2014
Posted in Bookart, Exhibitions, Looking for Matthew on Mar 31st, 2014
It was a little bit of surprise to receive an email from the Pacific Center for the Book Arts PCBA – which was dormant for about two years. The 15th members show ‘BookWorks’ was the reason behind the email. From June 18th through September 6th, in the skylight gallery of the San Francisco Public Library, the […]
single sheet book – Christmas card
Posted in Bookart, Letterpress, Single Sheet Book on Jan 10th, 2014
As always just before Christmas there was a lot going on and I was not going to make a Christmas card. I had skipped the year before and since my Chinese New Year card is coming at the beginning of the year it’s OK to skip Christmas. Then I found myself sitting at home, carving […]
The Art of the Book – Rochester Public Library, NY
Posted in Accordion Book, Bookart, Exhibitions, Flag Book, Letterpress on Oct 28th, 2013
I received a letter from the Public Library this week letting me know that my book ‘A Sun that Rises’ has been awarded ‘Honorable Mention’ in the Artist Book category in the Library’s 2013 Art of the Book show. ‘A sun that rises’ is part of the ‘Al-Mutanabbi Street project’. The Library’s website is showing […]
edition a book
Posted in Bookart, Letterpress, Looking for Matthew on Oct 22nd, 2013
… still working on ‘Looking for Matthew’. It has not been easy for me to continue working on this project. Of course there are always those excuses with ‘all the other deadlines’ but then… if I really wanted and if this had a deadline I would have had finished it long time ago. Six of […]
ideation by chance – content and *kind of an artist statement*
Posted in Accordion Book, Bookart, Exhibitions on Oct 17th, 2013
The book is based on the following motivational quote : “Every day in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster that the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. […]
ideation by chance
Posted in Accordion Book, Bookart, Exhibitions on Oct 15th, 2013
Why was it such a challenge for me to create a book using ten cards from a deck? I started with a whole different set of ‘pages’ for this book, using the story of the gazelle and the lion. I tried to bring everything together but it did not ‘feel right’. Something was missing. And […]
ideation by chance – a new exhibition
Posted in Accordion Book, Bookart, Exhibitions on Oct 13th, 2013
This was not easy – I was close to call it off and just not finish this book. But then I did it and now I am happy that I did not sleep the last week and worked entirely on this project. And guess what? I knew about it since April … the story of […]