This multi-faceted project includes a body of artwork, A Thickening Fear of Air, alongside a written analysis of collaborative craft practice in contemporary art. The included artwork combines handmade papermaking and letterpress printing to create artists’ books and two-dimensi…
Areyto de liberación is a ceremony of liberation. A space for encountering old wounds, sitting with them and, experience healing. This areyto is for people whose ancestry comes from Taíno lands. It’s a self-rediscovery process to decolonize my spirituality, and experience healin…
The word Canto means so many things, but they are all related either to a praise to something that deserves a vocal or poetic form, or the edge and cut of an object. A book, most of the time, contains the poetic and the cut, and sometimes, as monks and reciters know, the voice.
I regard the culturally rich bookbinding as formats that hold great meaning; I made models of books that existed in different cultures through the history of the book. I became interested in how each structure had unique features and how the books themselves transmitted knowledg…
This essay details the rebinding of a 1945 edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The project brings together material research, book conservation practice, and fine leather bookbinding. The material research component is…