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Book arts

Horizontes is an accordion fold book conveying a young girl's experience of working on a farm in southern Spain during the late 1950s. The book is held in the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It is designed as a back-to-back accordion fold, ink jet and screen printed, 6 × 3.5 inches, edition of 6. Situated in a coastal location, the story describes a sense of curiosity and reverie elicited by the ocean. The account is based on an oral story told by the artist's mother and includes a reflection on how narratives from the past evoke new meaning in the present.

The other set of images are of Shelter Within a Shelter (currently at the prototype stage). This work explores ideas about refuge by referencing, among other things, Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard.

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