Book pages function as plaiting material, and as a context for image, pattern and text. The chapter headings imply subject and meaning. The plaiting within the shaped pieces exposes some the text, making language central to what the pieces evoke. The inkjet printed shapes are metaphors for windows, flower buds, bullets and obelisks.
Condition of Organic nature 2 & 3
2025
The piece o the right is 11 x 4”. The piece above is 7 x 4"
Digitally altered hand-cut inkjet prints of Lake Superior rock and a scanned pinecone, altered and cut book pages, hand-plaiting.
The book pages are from Science and Education Essays by T.H. Huxley, 1895. The weaving patterns are from Handweaving.net
Earth’s Green Mantle
2025
8 ½ x 5 ¾”
Inkjet print of a digitally altered photograph on Japanese paper, hand-cut into strips, hand woven into altered and cut book pages.
The book page is from Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. The weaving pattern is from Handweaving.net, Draft #41096: car_34224, Color Complementation Project, by the late computer scientist, Ralph Griswold, 2005
Acquiring a book of Thomas Huxley’s lectures from the 1880’s was a matter of chance, and discovering the uncut signatures (sewn sections of pages) was a stroke of luck. The uncut signatures also indicate that the second half of the book was never read.
Some of Huxley’s writing is problematic, but a surprising amount is prescient and still relevant. I chose signatures for headings that identify realms of our world currently under threat.
Uncut Signature 2: Clearcut Regenerating
14 x 19”. 2026.
Inkjet print of natural regeneration after clear-cut logging, altered book pages, hand-weaving.
The uncut and unfolded book signature is from Science and Education Essays by T.H. Huxley, 1895. The weaving pattern is from Handweaving.net Draft #8072: Classical Collection 5901, Classical Collection 6, compiled by Ralph Griswold, Varying Dates, 1850-2004
Uncut Signature 4: Fireweed
14 x 19”. 2026
Hand-cut Inkjet print , altered book signature, hand-weaving.
Fireweed, is one of the first plants to emerge after a forest fire or after logging. Photo taken by the artist in Brimson, MN. The uncut and unfolded book signature is from Science and Education Essays by T.H. Huxley, 1895. The weaving pattern is from Handweaving.net Draft #33101: Figure 1057, A Handbook of Weaves by G. H. Oelsner, Germany, 1915.
