Safe Words are pre-agreed words or signals that tell your sexual partner to either slow down or stop completely. They are distinctive but innocuous when spoken in their usual context. Typically, they are easy to remember and are unlikely to come up accidentally. When voiced in this specific context they become charged.
Fluke
Fluke is a one-of-a-kind book assembled from dice. I have used dice before. By reusing dice, I wanted to assemble something more open and less regular this time, and one whose pattern is happenstance. I think of it as a 3D sketch.
Shades
Shades is a list of fictional names for tones of greys. Parodying the commercial stylings of a company whose aim it is to package existing hues attractively in order to drive sales is a short list of fabricated shades. This zine is unambiguous.
Breaths
All the commas and full stops taken from the UK government’s 2020 guidelines for Staying at home and away from others (social distancing).
This pattern was made into a screen print and was the front page of a zine.
Transparency
The almost-nothingness of transparent backgrounds was the starting point for this work. Those grey and white chequered backgrounds that show transparency on graphics files, that are often left unnoticed, intrigued me. I wanted to make something with these overlooked backgrounds.
I like that transparent backgrounds describe a see-though plane by using an opaque pattern. And that they do so in virtual space. I wanted to transform this pattern by making it a material object that would occupy a physical space. I wanted it to unfold the way a map does, something that describes a territory.
Transparency is a map fold book to be held up to see the world beyond it.
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Transparency is part of a project made with members of the art collective Art Byte Critique. Responding to the theme Futuristic Illusion, this book belongs to a collaborative project with books by Arthur Huang, Patty Hudak, Yuko Kamei, Nick West, and Carlee Wolcott. It was first shared at Bristol Artist’s Book Event 2024.
Transparency is part of the collection of artists’ books at the UWE (University of West England).
Emergency Poetry
Emergency Poetry contains a list unlikely three word entries found on what3words.com . Taken from entries on a website that was started so that emergency service workers could pinpoint specific locations, this online resource divides the world into three word combinations. This zine strings some of these unique combinations together.
To/Fro
To/Fro is a book assembled from 104 ping pong balls. Belonging to the Books From Things series are a cluster of orbs. I wanted to mirror the back and forth between the book and the reader, reading.
Cover Story
Cover Story is an altered book. Consisting of George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel about being watched, 1984, it is covered in googly eyes.
Mixed Signals
A limited edition of 25 Risograph prints. Printed on A3 paper (140gsm), this work cuts and splices signal flags together to produce a glitchy, abstract pattern. A message may hide therein.
Book Forms - Tablet, bamboo, scroll, papyrus, codex rotundus, French doors, fortune teller, concertina, map fold, Turkish map fold, loose leaf newspaper, Dwarsligger, flip book, note book, pop up book, miniature, kamishibai, paperback, iPad, artist’s book
Blog: Book Forms
More Book Forms - hardback, dos-à-dos (back-to-back), zine, concertina, octopus, papyrus scroll, illustrated manuscript, guide book, carousel, choose your own adventure books, experimental books, manga, photobook, bunkobon, dragon scale binding, the anti-book, text books, audiobooks, microform film, and the book as sculpture (Robert The, Readers' Digest).
Even More Book Forms - Japanese stab binding, swatch book, crown binding, fan book, Bananote (by @pichikpachik), exploded book, digital sketchbook, flag book, exquisite corpse, Victorian peep hole, chapbook, passport, colouring book, smart phone book, scroll book (Ai Hashimoto), message in a bottle, dream journal, fish bone fold, altered book (Noriko Ambe), and the world’s largest pop up book.
Tinder
Tinder is a book made from matches and glue. It is the first object in the Books From Things series. The matches were bought from several ¥100 stores in Tokyo. Physically, Tinder is now cinder; it no longer exists.
Tinder was shown at the Launch Pad Gallery, Yokohama and at various Art Book Fairs.
Asemic Writing
Asemic Writing is a wordless form of writing. The word asemic means "having no specific semantic content". I made these by applying ink on paper. I started by designing strokes. I then arranged them on a page, repeating them at intervals that felt right.
The top image shows a work that sold at Launchpad Gallery, Yokohama.
