Panels of text joined with handmade paper and hand stitched
Concertina when partly opened
Concertina bound
The title, I PATCH, is not only reflected in the patchwork of the front and back covers but also in the square patches of text within the bookwork. The exposed stitch-work and binding, hand-cut panels and typewritten text are each a record of production. The typewriter stains the page with not only letters but also accidental streaks from the ink ribbon. Each of these elements marks a moment of making, and to borrow Ulises Carrión’s term; the bookwork becomes ‘a sequence of moments’.
The content is a crisscrossing dialogue between the artist, the object and the reader. It is a dialogue that records the production process including the ‘making’ of the work, the ‘being’ of the work and the ‘receiving’ of the work.
karen makes books 