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void
hand-made artist’s book. gouache, casein, ink, pencil, colored pencil, collage, cyanotype, woodcut, photocopy, and inkjet prints on paper. grass paper-bound. 10 x 8 ”, 2003-2005.

This book developed from the reassembling of proof prints & remnants from The Circular Ruins project. So it began with images of floating men & amorphous alchemy-inspired cyanotypes. The man symbolizes a void that can be variously filled; questions: am I a man or a dream? Man or image of man? How do I exist? Full or empty? Creator or Created? Consuming or Consumed? Immortal or mortal? These were my thoughts.

Then Shock & Awe began to unfold on the TV screen. The men in these images became soldiers, civilians, anchormen, war-mongers, peace-lovers… or the empty space of life lost. The pages became a space for my somewhat nonsensical rant.