Book in basket

Book in a basket (2011). Pen on handmade slippery elm and dak paper, cochineal-dyed hanji and pine paper yarn. Book: 1.375 x 1.25 x 1″. Oberlin College Art Library Collection.

i am
practice
i am
healing
i am
patience
i mark
time
i am
messy
i am
a reconfigured tree
i am
finger scaled
i am
scraps
i am
discards
i contain
past paper
and
past scraps
and
past discards
as if
dreams
could be
trashed
and
forgotten.
everything
is forgotten
but not
everything
is recalled
and remains
in memory
the not
remains
seem like
discards
as if
cycles
did not
exist
as if.