Gouache, various papers
3″ x 1.625″ x 0.25″
2017
The clean, strong imagery of this text appeals to me. Indeed, the visuals are so strong that I endeavored to make the letters themselves illustrate the poem, which describes so beautifully the value of words as well as our tenuous hold on them. Each book in this edition is a manuscript book; hand-lettering seemed to me critical to the immediacy of the text.
– Beth Lee, Bozeman, MT