artist’s books & illustrations

books & pages

books with their pages

G Book – Mixed Media – 20x11x12” – 1996

a book of collage, calligraphies and poetry on brown paper

all pages, below

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Nightstand – Mixed media – 20x15x½”(closed)– 1996

a large, paper-dolls-inspired pillow book in charcoal and pastel

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Herstory – Mixed Media – 24x18x3” (closed) – 1997

a large, soft book on texture and identity

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5 – Mixed Media – 11×8½x½” (closed) – 1997

a black & white book of text an texture; an offspring of “herstory”

all pages and the cover, below

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Herstory, 2 – Mixed Media – 11½x9x½”(closed)– 1997

a variation, in color

all pages and the cover, below

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Shooting Stars – Mixed Media – 11¼x9¼” – 1999

this book expands on my installation of the same titles, and embeds my photos of its sculptural elements ~ you can see the installation scrolling down this page

all pages, below

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Dolls – Mixed Media – 6½x6”(closed) – 2002

a book of textiles & transparencies ~ features some of my artist dolls

front & back (they work together) of all pages below, plus the cover

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Herbarium – Mixed Media – 11x9x½”(closed) – 2002

a book in earthy tones ~ playful weaving of natural and artifact calligraphies

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Houses – Mixed Media – 5½x6x½”(closed) – 2002

a small book of imagined architectures

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a small book of imagined architectures ~ all double pages and covers, below

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Inner Constellations – Mixed Media – 9½x7x1”(closed) – 2002

an intimate recombination of stars, planets, and myths

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Ulysses’Journey – Mixed Media – 5½”x5”1”(closed) – 2002

a book of islands and voyage

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If A Stranger—Mixed Media—2020—7¼x10x5½” open

a covid-19-born meditation in ink, collage and calligraphy

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Duet – Mixed Media – 2020 – 8x36x2” – SOLD

a book of poetic and visual quasi~endless combinations ~ sort of a mood calendar ~ pages can be re-arranged to form new juxtapositions

below is a small selection of pages

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This is my current manuscript, presently submitted for publication. Below are the visuals, titled like the accompanying poems . I am completing the fabrication of the book/object that includes all the originals

illustrations

in chronological order (1985 to date), from both published and unpublished books

for Giacomina nel Libro (1985, unpublished)

for Gli Origami di Giulio, by Luciano Rossi (1988, unpublished)

for Alberto in Scatola, by Luciano Rossi (1989, unpublished)

for Dalla Terra al Vaso, by Toti O’Brien (Thesaurum Editore, 2001)

for Ken Wirick’s pronunciation card set (2003, published)

for Fables, by Jean de la Fontaine ~ a small selection (1996, unpublished)

for Pink Book – few rescued pages, 2004

(i never assembled the book, as the majority of the illustration tables were lost/stolen while in a Gallery, and I couldn’t wrap my mind around it – perhaps, one day I will reconstruct it)

for Lanterna Magica, by Toti O’Brien (Salpare Edizioni, 2004)

Poetry Pages – early samples of my own writing illustrated

for Poemas para leer en recreo, by Manuel Luna (Asterisco Editora, 2011)

for Giochi di Fuoco, by Maria Teresa Giuffré (Studium Editore, 2011)

for Maruca la Tortuga, by Manuel Luna (Asterisco Editora, 2013)

for El Gato Saramago, by Manuel Luna (Asterisco Editora, 2016)

for a project by Marina Sanfilippo, in progress

from Today in the Forest, by Cindy Rinne (Moonrise Press, 2021)

the 22 mixed media included in “odd arcana” (cholla needles, 2023) are displayed on this page

for Today on Two Planets, by Cindy Rinne (Fiberverse, 2024)

for Today on Three Planets, by Cindy Rinne (2026)

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my artworks have often illustrated poems, fiction, essays, and articles, in print and online — here are links to a number of examples

10 illustrations for a series dedicated to contemporary Canadian poets

Argonline Magazine, January-April

cover art

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