New Fly Away Handmade Artist Books

It was such an honor to have my artist photobook, “fly away” included in The Photobook Journal’s “Interesting books of 2019.” You can read the list and see all the other books chosen here !

Here are some pages from book #8 “fly away” that was just finished for a collector in California. They are unique handmade editions in a series of 25. This is the series artist statement:

Fly Away

”In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die; Ever drifting down the stream, Lingering in the golden gleam - Life, what is it, but a Dream?" - Lewis Carroll There is a very short period of time that everyone is a child, and only so many summers we can experience as a child, before they "die", and we must become adults. In this series, I focus on the fleetingness of time, and the dream like world my daughter takes me to, as she escapes into her imagination in the outside world of our home, the Ohio landscape. Through multiple exposures and a technique called freelensing in which I hold my broken film lenses, detached from the camera, I have tried to create the world which she imagines and inhabits. One in which time is irrelevant and where fairies do exist, and she is Queen of the Butterflies. It is an escape to wonderland, a dream world she flies away to, and always comes back.

This is a series of 25 and books 9-25 are still available to purchase here