Mt. Hood Wilderness
Mt. Hood Wilderness
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Unique artist book; Handset letterpress title card, title page, colophon, India ink on sewn accordion-fold Gampi paper, wool felt, found sticks, lichen, tin box.
Mt Hood Wilderness is part of the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art's Artist Book Collection
tin box - 5" x 6" x 1.75", book closed - 2.75" x 3.5" book open - 37"
2013
The massive gnarled trees surrounding Boulder Lake in the Mt. Hood National Forest were sketched onsite. The branches were collected on a long ghost trail hike on the last day of my Signal Fire adventure.
After my week in the wild, I internalized the knowledge: from death sprouts new life.