Description
Lives and works in Vermont
About this piece:
Darkness Blooms holds seven watercolor paintings of night-blooming flowers in an historic-style paper binding known as a harlequinade or metamorphosis book. The structure allows for each flower to be shown in its closed daytime state, with its night blossom revealed underneath. Most gardens are lively in the sunshine, with bold colors and showy blooms, but there are moon gardens also, filled with plants whose flowers open in the dark and fragrance often intensifies. These plants add to the beauty and mystery of the night. The book is housed in a cloth-covered clamshell box and includes two separate single leaves, one noting the genus and species of each plant, the other a colophon.
Original watercolors painted by the artist.
Materials:
paper, ink, board, bookcloth, watercolor, pencil
About the artist:
Stephanie Wolff is an artist, hand bookbinder, printer, and book conservator. She was the Fall 2015 Helen M. Salzberg Artist-in-Residence at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts. In 2013 she was awarded a Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. Her current body of work focuses on themes of weather, history, and rural life. Her artist books are held in library and private collections and included in 500 Handmade Books, Volumes 1 & 2. In addition to working on her own creative projects, she teaches book arts to students of all ages.
