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Star 82 Review Issue 5.2 Is Now Live Online & Print
Star 82 Review, the art and literary magazine I founded and publish, now in its fifth year, has just seen the release of the eighteenth regular issue! This particular collection has moving work: we are...
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Mind the Gap, Little Leaps, Book Art & Teju Cole's Blind Spot
When we read, we carry memories of what came before. To make sense of the book, we hold onto its information as we go. At the same time, we compare what we are reading to what we already know. If the...
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Lucky 7 Book Art Bundles
I've experimented and made hundreds of book structure models over the years, painted and blank, stenciled, stitched, and woven. You may have seen them here on the blog, or  in one of the instructional...
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The Collage Art of Irwin Kremen
When you're a kid, there's at least one inevitable moment where you pick something up off the ground and say "Look what I found!" and the grown-up person whose care you are in says, "Put that down,...
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Lucky 7 Book Art Bundles: Take Two
No sooner than I announced them, the original Lucky 7 Book Art Bundles were sold out, almost. Thank you! I've been going through the studio to see what other models, seconds, boxes, and partially made...
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Lucky 7 Book Art Bundles: Take Three and That's All!
Thanks everyone, for your interest in my work! The previous bundles sold out within 24 hours of announcement. Of the models, I think I'm down to what I can bear to part with now, and am posting these...
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Meeting Places: a book art exhibition at SF Public Library
I arranged to meet a friend to view the exhibition Meeting Places/Luoghi d'incontro at the San Francisco Public Library recently. After a couple of missed connections, we finally found each other and...
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Vegetarian Comfort Food and Cats Cookbook
Long ago but not far away, I put together a cookbook for my graduating high school senior, ready to launch her into the world clutching our particular version of comfort food. As vegetarians, we still...
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Looking for Book Art at SFMOMA
Within their website, the history of SFMOMA is slightly hidden. It opened in 1935 on the fourth floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building at Civic Center. I spent the most time there, in that...
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A Quilt as an Open Book: Hope Rants
I've been making quilts nearly as long as I've been making books, although I've made thousands of books and perhaps a dozen or so quilts. That doesn't count all the postcard quilts I made (instructions...
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Reading Fiction and Haruki Murakami
I've got a story coming out in the online magazine Every Day Fiction on Thursday, and some comments by one of the editors got me thinking again about fictional stories and what we expect from them....
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New One-Sheet Book Instructions: Wrapped Accordion
I taught my Winged Book* in a workshop last Friday for the Miniature Book Society's Conclave. Peter Thomas, another book artist, was in attendance, and he commented how much he liked the way the cover...
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Story: Kumi's Light Published in Every Day Fiction
I started this blog in November 2010, as I was in my second year of a three-year graduate program in creative writing, fiction, at San Francisco State University. I think three years for a grad program...
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Instructions: Divided Insert Tray for a Box
It was a classic example of needing organization. I'd been using a variety of colors of embroidery thread to quilt my next project and the skeins were all over the floor. In the studio, I'd just...
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New Art Quilt/Open Book: Seraph
In January, 2017, I had been thinking I might do a book, a kind of typographer's pun, called Sans Seraph: without angel. The project turned out to be an art quilt, which I like better: you could wrap...
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Star 82 Review 5.3 is LIVE!
The newest issue of Star 82 Review, the online and print art and literary magazine I produce and edit, has been released. An intriguing mix of art and writing that relates to intersections and...
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Rethinking Submission Fees
Artists' books have undergone a change in the thirty years I've been involved in the community. They used to be inexpensive; book artists could afford each other's books. Once they moved to the gallery...
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New Art Quilt/Open Book: Hand Gun
If you had asked me to make something about guns a couple of months ago I would have shaken my head. Not my thing. I don't feel comfortable using them as imagery in my work. I began writing tiny...
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Instructions: Using SolarFast Dyes
Having painted paper since 1995 or so and enjoyed cutting it up and making books out of it, dying cloth to use in a larger work feels familiar. In college, I used to go to the seconds store and get...
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Autumn Sunset on the Ospreys
When we think of Fall, the word brings with it various associations: some obvious, some not so much. California urban dwellers, of which I am one, tend to see Fall marked more by stores and businesses...
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