events 01

Core Samples 02 — I completed two bookworks in which I cut into existing books to represent the transformation of cause and effect in the events of the summer. The formal explorations in my book works allowed me to express how events in my life revealed and concealed other events, and how they played out over time and affected my life. The layers between the pages become apertures for framing ensuing content. Some holes reveal; others conceal. All show transformation and transition, cause and effect.

The first iteration utilizes random incisions—angled and unplanned. They are sharp, surprising, and violent. When sequentially turning the book, I cannot foreshadow the types of cuts in the following pages. The cuts come quickly and abruptly, and do not have longevity in their repercussions. Likewise, the concussion started out suddenly and abruptly, but it subsided away.