Marbles for the John J. Harvey

1 volume, 104 pages. In 2018 I was commissioned by Public Art Fund and 14-18 Now to dazzle the John J. Harvey, an historic fireboat in the New York Harbor. Built in 1931 and retired in 1994, the Harvey was rescued at a scrap auction by a group of maritime enthusiasts. Since then, the boat has been maintained by volunteers, operating as a small museum and offering free rides to the public. The Harvey became an unexpected hero on 9/11, springing back into service and pumping water for 80 hours. The story is memorialized in a Moira Kalman book. Dazzle Camouflage was a painting strategy invented by the artist Norman Wilkinson during WWI, Usually comprised of sharp, contrasting, stripey designs, dazzle was devised to confuse rather than conceal. For my interpretation of the tradition, I marbled paper to generate high contrast images of fluid behaviours. This book chronicles the project and compiles a selection of the unused designs. -- Artist\u27s statement. Two half-sheet pages laid in, one includes information pertaining to this publication, the other lists other open edition titles by the artist. Red plastic spiral binding. Red plastic cover has a circular cut-out with a marble pattern from the first page showing through.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1204/thumbnail.jp

Z Helix

116 pages : all illustrated. The helix is chiral and exists in two varieties, S and Z. The book Z Helix developed around the manufacturing conventions of coil bindings (which are only available as Z helices), and the color and structure of the sculpture \u27Square Helix (Z)\u27 which was included in an exhibition entitled The New Ambidextrous Universe at the ICA London in 2014. The book contains five Z helices --Insert. Two color coils interweaved. Spiral bindings in orange and blue. Indigo print on 4mm transparency film. Housed in a corrugated cardboard box (31 x 26 cm) Title, author and imprint info stamped with a custom rubber stamp on container.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1321/thumbnail.jp

Maille

24 unnumbered pages : all illustrations. As a weaver, recreational student of topology and collector of wire entanglement puzzles, I\u27ve been studying chainmaille and the many variations of meshes that can be made with interlocking rings. The book \u27Maille\u27 is a collection of images from this research which have been heavily processed and rendered using a variation on halftoning: a mesh of differently sized white rings. The volume is hinged together with metal rings like those used to make the weaves in the photographs. --artist\u27s statement.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1324/thumbnail.jp

Experience : Culture, Cognition and the Common Sense

"Experience convenes a conversation with artists, musicians, philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and neuroscientists, each of whom explores aspects of sensorial and cultural realms of experience. The texts include new essays written for this volume and classic texts by such figures as William James and Michel Foucault. The first publication from MIT’s Center for Art, Science, & Technology, Experience approaches its subject through multiple modes." -- Publisher's website

The new concrete

The New Concrete is a long-overdue survey of the rise of concrete poetry in the digital age. The accessibility of digital text and image manipulation, modern print techniques and the rise of self-publishing have invigorated a movement that first emerged in an explosion of literary creativity during the 1950s and 1960s. This new volume is a highly illustrated overview of contemporary artists and poets working at the intersection of visual art and literature, producing some of the most engaging and challenging work in either medium. Featuring an introductory essay by renowned American poet Kenneth Goldsmith and edited by celebrated poets Victoria Bean and Chris McCabe, The New Concrete is an indispensable introduction to the breadth of concrete poetry being produced today. Edited by Victoria Bean and Chris McCabe, with an essay by Kenneth Goldsmit