Unravel / Butler Library at Columbia University
Unravel / Butler Library at Columbia University

Context: Art, Books, & Freedom, 2025-26

Site-specific installation made from the cloth covers of discarded books.

Stack / Fred. Gallery
Stack / Fred. Gallery

Homage, 2023

Installation of discarded books, covers removed, creating an analog stack. The books become a metaphor for memory and information recall – the last item stored is the first item retrieved.

Property of (detail)
Property of (detail)

2021
Pages from found and discarded books
68 x 130 inches (variable)

Property of was created as a commentary on intellectual versus real property as it relates to creative works. The practice of ‘branding’ book pages to denote ownership conveys something different than an inscription or a dedication page. These markings, instead, are a deliberate indication that something is ‘ours,’ made to document the provenance of the object as it passes through time.

I Would I Were Beneath a Tree
I Would I Were Beneath a Tree

2020
300+ covers removed from discarded books
140 x 96 inches

This is No.628 of Everyman's Library
This is No.628 of Everyman's Library

2019
Covers from 400+ vintage books
Site-specific installation for
Main Window Dumbo

129 x 126 inches

This is dedicated to the one I love
This is dedicated to the one I love

Dedication pages from 365+ vintage books
2018

90 x 288 inches

Life.
Life.

(detail)
Vintage book pages
2017

108 x 80 inches

Unravel / Butler Library at Columbia University
Stack / Fred. Gallery
Property of (detail)
I Would I Were Beneath a Tree
This is No.628 of Everyman's Library
This is dedicated to the one I love
Life.
Unravel / Butler Library at Columbia University

Context: Art, Books, & Freedom, 2025-26

Site-specific installation made from the cloth covers of discarded books.

Stack / Fred. Gallery

Homage, 2023

Installation of discarded books, covers removed, creating an analog stack. The books become a metaphor for memory and information recall – the last item stored is the first item retrieved.

Property of (detail)

2021
Pages from found and discarded books
68 x 130 inches (variable)

Property of was created as a commentary on intellectual versus real property as it relates to creative works. The practice of ‘branding’ book pages to denote ownership conveys something different than an inscription or a dedication page. These markings, instead, are a deliberate indication that something is ‘ours,’ made to document the provenance of the object as it passes through time.

I Would I Were Beneath a Tree

2020
300+ covers removed from discarded books
140 x 96 inches

This is No.628 of Everyman's Library

2019
Covers from 400+ vintage books
Site-specific installation for
Main Window Dumbo

129 x 126 inches

This is dedicated to the one I love

Dedication pages from 365+ vintage books
2018

90 x 288 inches

Life.

(detail)
Vintage book pages
2017

108 x 80 inches

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