Description
The simple one-sheet book structure for Cosmology was inspired by Hiebert’s interest in Japanese architecture. The artist-made paper is 100% cotton, featuring a pigmented pulp lamination. Portland poet, Carl Adamshick, wrote the poem Cosomology specifically for the book. Letterpress printing by Diane Jacobs; laser cutting by Joe Freedman.
Cosmology
Silence is a window
open to the mountain air.
The window, a map,
moonlit, showing
an ocean floor
and the lost city
where your child grew tall.
Memory is the water
you hear falling
on the mountain
as you push
the silence closed.
Helen Hiebert is a Colorado artist who constructs installations, sculptures, films and artist books using handmade paper, thread and light. She teaches and lectures about papermaking and lamp-making internationally, and has served as an adjunct faculty member at Oregon College of Art & Craft and Pacific University. Helen exhibits her work internationally, she is author of the books Papermaking with Plants, The Papermaker’s Companion, Paper Illuminated, Playing With Paper, and Playing With Pop-Ups. Helen has an extensive network of paper colleagues around the world and her interest in how things are made (from paper) keeps her up-to-date on current paper trends.
