An artist's book that meditates on what we carry with us into the galaxy. The images, based on x-rays of spacesuits, represent the physical apparatus we need to survive, and the text touches on what we carry inside those suits: our hopes, our prayers, our memories, our songs, our names. Edition of 10, 2021
“Things We Carried Into Space” was printed on a Vandercook Universal III at the In Cahoots Residency in 2021. The images are pressure printed and the text is letterpress printed using poylmer plates. The typface is gil sans. The book is a drum binding with a hardcover case.
Made in the style of a children's board book, "Don't Use Your Hands" is a response to the mechanization and commodification of craftwork and art. Edition of 10, 2019
"Don't use Your Hands" was printed at the In Cahoots Residency, using the residency's wood type collection, with pochoir illustrations on Rives BFK.
Artist’s book about an extinct native Hawaiian bat species. Hand-bound box with three drawers containing linocut prints of bat bones, a letterpress booklet with text written by the poet Laurel Nakanishi, and a handmade paper bat printed with a linocut of the native Hawaiian forest. Edition of 10, 2019
Crown binding, pochoir. 2015
The Ashworths are a fictional family who live on an isolated island and are plagued by series of strange and tragic incidents. Their story is told through notes, letters, and objects collected in a set of envelopes. 2013
The Ashworths are a fictional family who live on an isolated island and are plagued by series of strange and tragic incidents. Their story is told through notes, letters, and objects collected in a set of envelopes. 2013
A collection of absurd imaginary birds in the style of a Victorian field guide. 2009
A collection of absurd imaginary birds in the style of a Victorian field guide. 2009
Collaborative letterpress and pressure print artist book, with the theme "self portrait as map." 2008
Small coptic book made using paste paper scraps. 2 ¼ ″ x 2 ¼ ″ x ¾.″ 2015
1″ x 1″ x 1″ coptic book. 2015
Small coptic book made with leftover scraps from stick chart prints. 2014
3" x 3" coptic book. 2013
Circular Coptic Book. 2014
1 inch circle book made from old maps. 2014
2’’x2’’ dos-à-dos binding. 2014
Before European contact, Pacific islanders made stick charts to map the locations of islands, ocean swell patterns and currents. These navigational tools were personal. The meaning of each map was a secret known only to the navigator who made the chart. These images were inspired by stick charts and designed by the artist.
Single sheet book, edition of 6. Reused polymer plates from Dislocation printed on an etching press. 2015
Accordion artist's book with case. 2016
A few Polynesians boarded passing European ships and worked as crew members. A Tuvaluan named Telava made it as far as the Antarctic ice, and commemorated the event by naming his granddaughter Taimalo: ‘the sea is solid.’
The Sea is Solid was designed using found images and text from “South Pacific peoples - Early migration,” Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, by Carl Walrond. It was printed at the Hui No'eau and bound in Maui, Hawaii, 2016.
Accordion artist's book with case. 2016
Accordion artist's book with case. 2016
Accordion artist's book with case. 2016
Letterpress printed artist book. 2011
I was born on an island. The island is a point of origin that I have been moving away from formany years. I consider and reconsider the ways that it has defined me. I make lists, I write poems, I write essay after essay. I write down all these definitions and then I write new ones over those.
Dislocation is a personal account of growing up as a minority in Polynesia. The images were inspired by stick charts from the South Pacific. Before European contact, Pacific islanders made stick charts to map the locations of islands, ocean swell patterns and currents. These navigational tools were personal. The meaning of each map was a secret known only to the navigator who made the chart. These images were inspired by stick charts and designed by the artist.
Letterpress printed artist book. 2011
Broadside of a drawing of a Micronesian stick chart with text lifted from essays on Pacific navigation. Polymer plate printed letterpress. 2011
Polymer print plate of a drawing of a Micronesian stick chart. 2011
Polymer plates on an etching press. 2015
For the stick chart prints in Dislocation, I built my own stick charts out of reed and string. I scanned the charts and made polymer plates from the images, which were letterpress printed using a Vandercook press. These images are based on the idea of stick charts, and are not replicas of specific charts.
Letterpress printed paper dress. Collaboration with Pink Slip Apparel. 2011
Letterpress printed paper dress. Collaboration with Pink Slip Apparel. 2011
Letterpress printed paper skirt. Collaboration with Pink Slip Apparel. 2011
Letterpress printed paper skirt. Collaboration with Pink Slip Apparel. 2011
Letterpress printed corset. Collaboration with Pink Slip Apparel. 2011
Wire, paper, and hibiscus tea stained string. 2011
Wire, paper, and hibiscus tea stained string. 2011
Wire, paper, and hibiscus tea stained string. 2011
Wire, paper, and hibiscus tea stained string. 2011
Letterpress printed paper dress. Collaboration with Pink Slip Apparel. 2011
A series of projects inspired by outer space and the NASA space program.
Your Life in Space is a series of parody instructional brochures about the daily etiquette of life in space. 2011
Your Life in Space is a series of parody instructional brochures about the daily etiquette of life in space. 2011
Playful artist book in the style of sewing cards with an outer space theme. 10 cards, each with a different sewing pattern. Plate lithography printed on blue card stock, enclosed in a dark blue slipcase. 2009
A series of projects inspired by different forms of mapping.
Paper, thread. 2011
Paper sculpture. 2011
Map fold artist's book. Letterpress, pressure printing. 2011
1 inch circle book made from old maps. 2014
A series of small books inspired by city maps. 2013
A series of small books inspired by city maps. 2013
A series of small books inspired by city maps. 2013
City Walks I
Single sheet book, 2017
City Walks II
Single sheet book, 2017
Fishbone structure, 2018
Detail of Panorama. Installation, trace monotypes, paper, pins. 2011
Detail of Panorama. Installation, trace monotypes, paper, pins. 2011
Detail of Panorama. Installation, trace monotypes, paper, pins. 2011
Installation, trace monotypes, paper, pins. 2011
Artist’s book. Fish bone structure, pochoir, traced ink drawings. Traced images from “The Space Shuttle Operator’s Manual” and “Canoes of Oceania.”
Slipcase for travel journal. 2014
Travel journal. Vintage map cover, coptic binding. 2014
Untitled volvelle. 2010
Hedi Kyle taught a structure at the University of the Arts that she called a “bat book.” It was based on a medieval book that hung upside down from a belt, with pages that unfolded like wings. I’ve used the structure for (echo) location, a book about bats. The images were taken from nineteenth century illustrations and printed the pages from a vintage atlas. In an edition of two, (echo) location is part of the Wild Creatures project. 2014
Circular Litany began when I crumpled and scanned the pages of my poetry thesis. Crumpling my poetry was very therapeutic! I liked both the way the crumpling scattered and rearranged the text, and the texture of the crumpled paper.
I decided to focus on a poem-play from my thesis, (“Litany of the Dead: A Opera for Four Saints and a Chorus of Angels”) and choose three crumpled pages. I printed the three crumpled pages in blue, green and orange on a Davidson Offset Printing Press. The paper is Mohawk Superfine.
I laminated the prints and cut a series of circles which then were hinged together to create a varied edition of volvelles.
I was playing with the idea of how a circle breaks the hierarchy of the page. The already scattered text can be approached from any angle. The circles of the volvelle can be shifted by the reader, allowing him or her to change the form of the page as well.
