SketchBooks

Book22B

'Chinese Wedding
summer - winter 1995

Cover of sketchbook 22B: a dark overexposed photograph of a crowd raising round-headed forms, like a procession seen through fog Back cover of sketchbook 22B: half faded red cloth, half a smoky photographic print of gnarled tree branches

Sketchbook 22B open on a road case: a Chinese wedding chair clipping ringed by red imps, and on silver foil a mummy-like figure trailing long roots — 'I am big + the pictures that got smaller' Sketchbook 22B spread: photos of a sculpted head-jar and a brooch-studded form on scorched paper, opposite a mirrored double self-portrait photo above silver foil — 'I give you 1995 of my 23rd year' Sketchbook 22B spread of journal writing with taped photos of small buildings and trees, a pencil sketch of a wrought-iron gate — 'turn the trees to flame.' Sketchbook 22B spread: red flames drawn sweeping across a silvered page, opposite ink studies of a torso, flames, and notes — 'The Lesser of Many, Many evils, 17 Jan 95' Sketchbook 22B spread: a silvered page with a Handloom Batik Ganesha card taped on, opposite a drawing of a woman in a slip with one blackened arm against blue-patterned shadow Sketchbook 22B spread 'NIGHT OF ME': golden grasses and silver berries on seafoam green, opposite a red spider-like burst and a row of gold ovals circled in silver Sketchbook 22B spread: a pencil drawing of a nude sleeper stretched across both pages amid pink stains — 'never before has reality been so appealing...'

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