Book33

SketchBooks

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20 march 2007 - November 2007

Back cover of sketchbook 33: a jeweled blue Renaissance sleeve and a hand leafing through a green book, collaged in leather corners with a floral tapestry bandCover of sketchbook 33: the sleeping face of van Eyck's God the Father from the Ghent Altarpiece turned sideways in its gold inscribed halo, set into pebbled leather and tapestry Sketchbook 33 spread: a pine tree drawn in patient pen line, its trunk splitting into branches over a bare horizon, a few ink burrs floating above Sketchbook 33 spread: magnolia branches in contour line budding through a rust-red wash with pale purple blossoms, dark ink branches breaking in at lower left Sketchbook 33 spread: two great black ink blots mirrored across the gutter like a Rorschach figure with outstretched arms, faint pencil sketches beneath Sketchbook 33 spread, Teotihuacan Mexico 2007: a shaggy pepper tree in black ink over a shaded path, and at right cactus paddles drawn in wandering line