Book Title: DwellingsDate Produced: 2019Sections/Pages: 1 accordion book, one hardcover, one unique cocoon paper sculpture Print methods: Letterpress, ink, papercutting Papermaking and Boxmaking by: Rhiannon Alpers Poem by Susan Brind MorrowEdition of 6 Price: $850.00 Dwellings investigates the imagined, built, and mended spaces we inhabit for our emotional safety. We as humans can’t dwell where we haven’t been. Conceptually speaking, our own dwellings (both spatially and mentally) change as we navigate our surroundings in the life cycle. This book attempts to materialize the personal process of creating a “dwelling” to capture moments in time (both spatially and mentally). Deriving inspiration from natural seed pods, animal metamorphosis casings, and hummingbird nests the sculptural handmade paper pods were formed with wet sheets and either stitched with synthetic sinew if needed or left as they formed. The pods are purposefully small, imperfect spaces with crevices, fissures, and multiple openings. Each book/box within varied edition book contains unique handmade paper abaca pod in the box structure. The multi-panel unfurling two tray compartment box is made of handmade dupioni silk bookcloth in midnight purple and rust, created by the artist. Both the compartments hinged trays open, one to reveal a nested cocoon sculpture made of over-beaten abaca nested and the other side to reveal a book cover containing letterpress panel poem, a colophon, and a loose over-beaten abaca accordion sculptural book in the other. Book Details:Size: 7.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 closed Book Measures: 4” x 6.5” x .5”Open Box Measures: 7.5 x 39”
