Cambridge, Massachusetts
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A long, long way from home
Vegetable-tanned leather dyed with ink and decorated with carborundum, mica and thread, handmade Degener Black from Cave Paper, photopolymer etchings on Arches paper, photography with text printed on Awagami kinwashi hemp paper with suminagashi patterns in ink.
12.7 x 45.7 x 5 cm
Completed in 2020
What inspired you to create this work or select this text for your submission?
This book documents my 2019 trip to Kalispell, Montana to explore the place where my great-grandfather died in 1896 after an accident on the Great Northern Railway. It was my first exposure to this majestic part of the country and I was in awe of the beauty of Glacier National Park and the nearby Flatfoot reservation. The book is dedicated to my Dad who died of Covid and who had always wanted to take this journey to finally see the place behind all the stories. The cover also integrates the 15th century bookbinding technique of cuir bouilli which I have been experimenting with lately to achieve more three-dimensional effects.
Katrina Carye is a printmaker and enthusiastic continuing education student at NBSS (and elsewhere) where she first discovered the wonderful world of bookbinding. She is passionate about making original artist books that integrate etchings, monotypes, and suminagashi with unusual uses of leather and other materials like mica.