Artists’ BOOKS

  • Dumb er

    A book/box of drawings of abandoned rock collections found on the street or by the side of the road that don’t  necessarily belong to the land they were found on. It feels sometimes ridiculous to make a book of drawings of found ordinary rocks, peoples abandoned collections that at one time meant  so much. If it was about the  beauty of the land, a moment in time, a keepsake of time and place, I think it’s important and a beautiful opportunity to honor it. (Lauri)

    wood, ink, cotton, collage, stone, wood box – 2025

  • Wander/Wonder

    A birch bark box of single page books attached to a piece of granite with abstract landscape paintings on the “book covers” containing texts of wanderings and wonderings. Wonderings, such as, “do snakes laugh” or  “where  do birds sleep” while wandering through fields and streams.

    (private collection)

  • INSTRUCTIONS

    Instructions for alternative landscape drawing. A drawing kit in an old box containing a book of instructions, ink and charcoal, a pencil, eraser, sharpener, measuring tape, compass, and a found blue crayon. The first 2 drawings were made in late December down in Santa Cruz. (Lauri)

  • A Bit of Muchness

    A Bit of Muchness is a synonym for the word “flood” and is the title of the display as well as in the title of one of the artists’ books on display from June 1st to June 30th 2023.  Urban Ore offers a “residency” – an opportunity to display artwork in a case by the front entrance and is one of my favorite places in Berkeley.  In fact many of the materials for the books are found there as well as on the streets of Oakland and on our land up north.  Peter Suchecki, an artist and my partner, provides the sawing and the sewing. The books are about a range of things like bird calls, politics, climate change, and being in the landscape, and are mostly connected to the natural world.

  • here you are

    As you turn the pages you wander through a drawn and collaged landscape with text of a calming mantra as each page contains different synonyms for ‘wooded sanctuary.’ On the other side you travel through synonyms for ‘wander’ collaged with old travel guide maps. 5 x 6 x 7″ double-sided accordion. Collage. Bound in wooden boards. Cloth wrap with tie closure.

    Materials: birch bark, glaucophane schist, cotton paper, ink, metal, redwood, hemp. 
    COLLECTION: Smithsonian Libraries, American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, Washington D.C.