Trip (knit version)

Trip (knitted version) (2025). Indigo, persimmon juice, letterpress, and pen on hanji. Approx 4 x 3.5 x 2.5” closed, 8.5” wide open; 11 leaves. Variable edition of 18. Collections: Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection, Oxford University Bodleian Libraries, Stanford University Libraries Special Collections, University of Michigan Library, Western Michigan University Zhang Legacy Collections Center.

The knitted edition of a book about the brain fog and memory loss that accompanies aging, particularly for women in perimenopause. That time of a woman’s life is so often ignored and not popular to talk about, but some of its contours are explored in this malleable, light as air book that belies how heavy and difficult the phenomenon can be.

Made possible by an NEA-funded residency at the Kalmazoo Book Arts Center in fall 2024.

Trip

If I can’t remember,
am I losing myself?

Words become distant, sitting
on my chest but far from my tongue

Thoughts float in a dense haze,
dissolving like mist when you get close.

Is this fog some kind of gift
or message
or simply aging

I could fill my entire body with nutrients
and still be lacking

Words have escaped; emotions remain
Even those start to get cloudy

What looked like clear air
is now an opaque window
keeping me out of my own mind

What seems solid can
disappear in an instant

However shrouded, the next
path is worth the falls.