White Sands
1999, edition of 2, closed 10.5”x14”x1.5”, opens to 7’
All papers and prints are handmade and printed by the artist. Covers are cast paper made from cotton, painted while being formed using pigmented flax pulp. Comprising the interior of the panels are six original color prints. These zinc-plate intaglios are printed over monotypes, on a variety of cotton, flax, hemp and abaca papers. Bagasse papers cover the exterior of the panels. Panels are hinged with cloth.
White Sands is my one-day narrative of a site within a gypsum desert in New Mexico. Here one is enveloped by vast, hovering dunes and persistently rhythmic ridges of sand. Pure white, the sands reflect the course of the sun in evolutionary color, beginning at first light and changing until the end of day moves beyond the mountains.
