This series of four LINE BOOKS explores the news as seen in newspapers and the line as a basic element in visual art. In the discipline of limiting my expression I’ve discovered the eloquence of the line. Drawing a line I feel like an archer releasing the arrow. I repeat the action until the page is covered. Each line is a conscious act.

The pages of these books are taken from newspapers in late 2004 and 2005. First the images are obscured with black or white gesso, a symbolic comment on current government policies in the United States. I have found this obsessive process enormously calming. The painted lines further obscure the images, as if to deny their content.

Lines

Fifteen pages of gessoed newspaper with painted & collaged lines, recto and verso; one silk page with stitched lines, one vellum page with cut slits, two text pages printed by ink jet on vellum.

Covers are 4 ply museum board with gesso, shellac and charcoal.
Binding is single sheet Coptic stitch.
Box by John DeMerritt.
Edition of one.

Power Lines

Ten pages of gessoed newspaper with painted lines, recto and verso. Some pages have torn edges, one page has cut-out void. One page of text and one colophon printed by ink jet on vellum. Vellum cover sheet with cut-out void revealing title.

Covers are 4 ply museum board with gesso and paint.
Binding is single sheet Coptic stitch.
Plexi slip case.
Edition of one.

Fault Lines   2005                        9”w x 11.5”h

Twelve pages of gessoed newspaper with painted lines, recto and verso

Pages are of varied sizes in a stepped progression to full size.

Vellum front page with cut-out void.

At the end of the book statement and colophon printed by ink jet on vellum. Covers are 4 ply museum board with gesso and paint.

Binding is single sheet Coptic stitch.

Plexi slip case.

Edition of one.

Head Lines: Women in Order of Their Appearance    2005                        9.5”w  x 9.5” h

Twenty three pages of gessoed newspaper with painted lines, recto and verso

Black and white gesso with red paint.

Some pages have torn edges and one has a cut-out.

Vellum end page with cut-out slits.

Statement and colophon printed by ink jet on vellum at the back of the book.

Covers are 4-ply museum board painted with gesso with tipped in color Xerox prints

overlaid with lines.

Plexi slip case.

Edition of one.