TRACKS (from the Fire) and TRACES (revisited)

Digital prints of photographs from the study fire embedded in Ghana-kozo long fibre paper and milkweed with ash. Bound in a folding leporello style with tags that can hang. Images of hidden traces on one side, and more visible tracks in the fire rubble on the other.

This hanging bookwork is in dialogue with the Fire-Revisited and the first book of Tracks that I collaborated on with Robbin Ami Silverberg in 1999.

Robbin taught me about artists books about binding structures, about papermaking and embedding. Embedding the fragments and photographs of the discoveries I found in the rubble of the fire was a way to hold, preserve and let go of the loss. Excavating the hidden images from the paper pulp was a further tracking of traces of forgotten, and old memories that came back to life in the present.

A torn, dirty paper sign with the handwritten text "TRACKS & TRACES in the fire Revisited." The sign has a hole in the center and a burnt area below the hole, indicating its weathered and damaged state.
Column of concrete blocks with collage art and text, titled 'Tracks & Traces' and 'Revisited', featuring mixed media images and urban-themed artwork.
A tall, vertically oriented collage of weathered paper pages featuring torn edges, handwritten notes, sketches, and partially visible images, with the word "TRACKS" on the bottom page.