I Am, 2023

Artist book bound using linen thread and Keith Smith’s Greek Sewing pattern. Lenox paper, Iridescent mylar, hand-set metal type, polymer plate

Edition of 3.

I am is an artist book inspired by the calm that exists under the turbulence of waves. Maybe you’ve had the pleasure of being deep under the waves and watching the churning above, from the ease below. I made this after I walked the Camino Frances, using leftover papers from other projects. The text reconciles what the papers brought to the project with the thoughts that were going through my head in the summer of 2023.

I am

I am not the

turbulence

of my mind

I am steadfast

I am continuous

I am light

I am ease

I am quiet

I am the stillness

of the oceans

depths

I am the pristine

clarity

of the sea

I am not the waves

I am the flow

I am the pulse

I am not the

irregularity

of my heart

I am the break

I am the way into

knowing

I am magic

I am not the frontier

I am beyond

the beyond

I am the surrender

I am part and separate

I am the both and

I am

I Am, 2023

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