Fragile

"My book, Fragile, is a volume wrapped in paper on which the words 'Fragile, handle with care' have been stencilled, then crossed out. The message, 'Damaged beyond repair, Discard, ' remains. The packaged book, tied tightly with twine and not meant to be opened, focuses on the irreparable loss"--The Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website. "I am a painter by training and collage-maker by nature who began my experimental printmaking with reprographic machines. Since being introduced to computers in the late 1960's when working on my doctorate at Penn State, I have combined traditional and digital media. My work includes large scale mixed media pieces, artist books and book-like objects that bridge between these two forms. It embeds archetypal symbols and fragments of image and text in multiple layers of texture and meaning. It combines the humblest of materials, plaster, tar, wax and pigment, with the latest in technology to evoke the past and herald the future. My art-making is an integrated mode of inquiry that links concept and media in an ongoing dialogue - a visible means of exploring meaning"--Statement from artist's personal website (viewed June 29, 2015).