Nevada Still Lifes, 2024, mixed media, 11.25 x 9 x 4 in. / 28.5 x 22.86 x 10.16 cm.

Nevada Still Lifes, Suze Woolf, 2024, mixed media, 11.25 x 9 x 4 in. / 28.5 x 22.86 x 10.16 cm.

Artist Book: paintings, bark, smoked acrylic

While Artist-in-Residence in Great Basin National Park I found myself picking up bits of human detritus--rusted
cans, cow bones, beer bottles, etc. as well as natural scraps--dead leaves, bark, and so forth. I also stopped at the Oak Springs BLM Trilobyte site finding rebar as well as fossils. As I journeyed home
I stopped at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge finding feathers and shotgun shells. I was struck by the contrast
and painted a series of these objects. I then made the paintings into this book; so of course the covers had to be
both human and natural! Sean Petrie of Typewriter Rodeo wrote a brief poem for each panel, which I included on
semi-transparent overlays for each page