Description
About this piece:
Missing (trees) presents memories of six trees from my past paired with small paintings in a hybrid structure (drum leaf + sewn in pages). The paintings (oil on prepared paper) are mounted on hand-dyed rag papers with walnut ink drawings. The texts are hand-written, also in walnut ink, on translucent, hand-dyed paper. Book covers are cherry, labels are etched mica. Housed in a custom drop spine box that has bits of bark cast in epoxy resin on the tray base with spine and cover labels of etched mica.
Below is an example of the text accompanying a painting of a Blue Spruce branch:
I once spent summers sleeping next to the tallest blue spruce in the valley where Henson Creek & North Henson Creek intersect. I returned one spring to find the top two-thirds of the tree broken off. Somewhat miraculously, the tree missed crashing down onto the bunkhouse that was my summer home. The tapered tree top lay partially suspended, trapped in the slowly melting ice of the beaver pond. I moved away after the tree fell.
Materials:
paper, ink, varnish, oil, wood, metal, bark specimens, epoxy resin, mica, book cloth, book board
NOTE: This copy has been sold. Two other variants are available. Variant images and details sent on request.
About the artist:
Studio artist Alicia Bailey, Denver, Colorado, creates book and box works that often include elements beyond surface printed images and text; that move beyond traditional book forms and embrace presentation flexibility, innovative page folding tactics, rigid page construction and use of alternative materials. In her studio she produces artists’ book works, sculptural books and publishes limited edition book works under the Ravenpress imprint. Her work has been featured in dozens of solo and group exhibits throughout the world and is held in numerous public, private and special collections.
