All My Relations, artist book

All My Relations

Photos of the artist’s ancestors and other evocative images like a pocket watch, a locket, an ink pen are recreated as multiple block woodcuts. All evoke the passage of time. We sit looking back with the artist recalling family members and family legends, “Most faces I don’t recognize, but I can see the present in the past.” The background of each spread, printed with a wallpaper-like pattern, suggests that we are walking through the doorways of memory into many rooms.

  • Poem by Susan Lowdermilk.
  • Printed letterpress with multiple block woodcuts and hand set text on Arches Text Wove paper.
  • Leporello binding with hard covers, presented in a clamshell box
  • 9 x 15 inches, closed
  • Signed, limited edition of 25
  • 1993
  • $700
  • To order, please contact the artist.