The Island or – the attempt not to reach hands

Artist’s book created from a used book (A Summer Place by Sloan Wilson) with overpainted pages, 2024, Mixed Media, 124 pages.

The book’s narrative emerges from fragments of the original text combined with added collage elements and handwritten text, all in relation to the accompanying imagery. The work can be experienced through a performative reading (approx. 20 minutes).

A woman who finds herself alone on an island.
A woman who discovers that her self is a garden.
A woman who walks toward the southern tip of her island.