Nihon Calligraphia, 2018, mixed media, 14 x 3.6 x 3.5 in. / 35.56 x 9.14 x 8.89 cm.

Nihon Calligraphia, Suze Woolf, 2018, mixed media, 14 x 3.6 x 3.5 in. / 35.56 x 9.14 x 8.89 cm.

Artist book: Wood, leather, viscose

An accordion-fold book, more like a Japanese screen than the Western codex. During a Jentel residency near Sheridan, WY, the oldest saddlery in Wyoming was kind enough to teach me how to stamp leather; the patterns were traced on standing timbers burned in the Lost Fire of 1988 in the Big Horn Mountains.