Form is an artist book that embodies the concept of form itself. Transcending conventional book structures, Form takes the reader on a playful, tactile journey through its colorful pages, revealing various flaps, cutouts, and meandering lines that can be mixed and matched to create beautiful compositions. The rhythmic visuals are fabricated using relief woodblock printmaking techniques on BFK rives paper and the companion printmaking collage is made from the negatives of the book’s pages, placing elements of the making process on display. Together, the artist book and printmaking collage evoke an intimate sensation between the reader and the artistry, allowing for touch to guide the visual narrative and create an endless stream of possible sculptural and pictorial arrangements.
Form was featured in the 2024 Stamps Undergrad Juried Exhibition
https://stamps.umich.edu/events/2024-undergraduate-juried-exhibition
Within this Emptiness, my heart will bloom / A mystic map to navigate me through / The mountains of my manic joy and gloom.
Far beyond castle walls, my quest entombs / The easy life, unlived; yet, I make do. / Within this quest, my Emptiness will bloom
A painted shrine, a place where the cartoon / Of phony friends and blunders all slip through / The cracks, so I can comprehend my gloom.
As lawyers stand, argue in the courtroom / Of my unsettled brain, as fiery words flew; / I listened to their reasons why I bloom
Late! And just can't escape the grey costume, / A knightly cloak, that shields as snakes pursue. / Sometimes, I wish my manic joy and gloom
Would freeze like snow as I reach for the moon; / Yet, when confronted with the cards I drew, / My hand, in time, will age and learn and bloom / A healthy heart to replace all my gloom.
