New Handmade Artist Book- “I am the vine. you are the Branches”

Hello! It’s been awhile. I took some time off to get adjusted to my new position as a Montessori teacher to young children. Art- making has been calling me back quietly, and a few weeks ago I felt inspired to make this book. I had been thinking about this passage all year, and it seemed to fit perfectly with some of the fall/ winter images I made these last few months.
( if you would like to inquire about purchasing a copy of this, or Fly Away or Song of the Cicadas, just email me! My shop is down right now as I somehow missed the notice to pay for my domain and it quickly got bought up :(….)

Here are some images of “I am the vine. You are the branches.”

“I am the vine, you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit. Without me you can do nothing”- John 15:5

Beachcliff Beacon Feature

I was delighted to be on the cover of a local neighborhood magazine this month. It was a lovely welcome back to the west side of Cleveland.

I was asked to share about my photography journey, family, and volunteer work for the article. Thank you Beachcliff Beacon- Jason, Christine, and Rachel!

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