Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Pattern Book by Insert Blanc Press


A collection of my short-story-wallpaper-patterns has finally arrived! The book involves 5 short stories, each designed as a historical wallpaper pattern adding a visual element to the emotional tone of the story. Each piece is designed around the interplay of text and image, displaying a block of text that tries to strike a balance between the legibility of the image and the legibility of the text. This compromise is followed by a few pages that are "wallpapered", covered completely in a tiny repeating pattern composed of letters too small to read. The  readers focus is shifted completely to the flow of the pattern across the page. Finally, the image gives way to a large-size, colorful text from which no clear pattern can emerge, but which retains everything necessary to recreate the intricate patterns of the previous pages. And there are exquisite essays by Holly Myers and Kevin Killian!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0981462375/ref=mw_dp_img?is=l&qid=1360096252&sr=8-1

Friday, February 1, 2013






For the next few days you can catch a survey of 10 years of my book works at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary building, as a part of the LA Art Book Fair.