LensWork Online

I'm honoured that my wood nymph folio set is being featured in the Readers' Gallery of the LensWork Online site, alongside works and portfolios by other very talented photographers. LensWork is a print magazine and online environment filled with resources and musings prepared by Brooks Jensen, the editor/publisher and art photographer. I have been following the iPad version of the LensWork magazine, as well as Brooks' regular podcasts (over 900 of them!) and the Kokoro online publication of his personal art photography work. His musings are succinct and most inspiring, sprinkled with an oriental sensibility with which I find great resonance.

You can view the PDF that was posted on LensWork Online.

To find out more about LensWork and Brooks Jensen's art photography:

LensWork: http://www.lenswork.com

Brooks Jensen's personal art photography website: www.brooksjensenarts.com

wood nymph process images

A few images showing design/assembly of components of the wood nymph folio set. 

small easel-stand

flutter book printouts on roll paper and images on thicker paper 

handmade caddisfly larva case bookmark

wood nymph folio book set

wood nymph is about an artist and a wood nymph. It evokes struggle, transformation and rebirth through a deep longing for change, tempered by a strong determination to preserve an existing order. It illustrates a bond between nature and human.

The folio book set comprises handmade components that engage the reader in quietly discovering the spirit of the woodland through sight and touch.

All components are enclosed in a 5" x 5" x 1” paper case with four folding flaps and a sliding belly band.

A four-page colophon, assembled flutter book style (Japanese sempuyo), contains the artist's preface and details on the paper, printing, editioning and copyright.

A second flutter booklet features a freestyle twenty-two-page poem; a handmade caddisfly larva case, constructed of leaf, twig and other materials, serves as a bookmark.

The reader can display and view on a small easel stand a series of nine photographic archival pigment ink prints on paper, assembled in a folder. In addition, a translucent beeswax-infused photographic print on Japanese unryu washi paper waits to capture ambient light.

Sample pages:

Colophon, pp 1-2

Poem, pp 6-7

This is an open edition; each set is signed and numbered by the artist.

Latent Image magazine

Five full pages, including an excerpt from my wood nymph poem and several images, were published in Issue No. 4 (Fall 2014) of Latent Image, an online magazine edited/published by Allison White and Nicole Langdon-Davies from Vancouver.

Their 'zine is "a story of images and words, juxtaposed." The online digital version is free to view; you can also purchase a hardcopy version.

2 of 5 full pages