Waldoboro, Maine
Member for 23 years
Roots to the Earth, Poems by Wendell Berry, Wood Engravings by Wesley Bates
Undyed tanned goatskin with recessed onlays of dark green and dark brown goatskin, sewn silk endbands in yellow ocher and red ocher, hand marbled endpapers by Karli Frigge, linen thread, and braided linen tapes.
25.9 x 23.9 x 2.2 cm
Completed in 2019
Did you fully plan every aspect of this piece before starting to work on it, or did you make design decisions along the way?
Last year I was in the middle of working on a series of collages using casein pigments on printed papers on panels and wanted to incorporate this same approach in this bookbinding, but since this was a design problem that uses positive-negative space, not an artwork per se, I had to plan everything beforehand instead of working intuitively.
Though trained as a research biologist, Gerritt VanDerwerker has been a visual artist since 1977 and a hand bookbinder since 1994.
