I met book artist and printer Catherine Michaelis at a book fair in Seattle in 2004. We’ve swapped a few of our books and I’ve been following her on her blog. She recently finished a book for the Sandy Gallery’s Pop-Up Now! A Juried Exhibition of Movable Books. Catherline says of her book
Enter the sensual Erotica Botanica through an unfolding caress of its leaf shaped pages. Delicate flowers with enticing organs float up from the folds above a bed of leaves and seed pods. Erotic verse, written by flowers and pollinators, inspires the viewer to contemplate the sexual desire of plants.
One of the poems is
Bandy-legged bumble bee
your furry belted belly
tickles me
On her blog, she wrote several posts about her inspiration for the poems, the images and shapes. You can see them here (unfortunately, you have to read the posts backwards, probably my biggest complaint about blogs!).
Thanks for sharing. The contemporary colors combine nicely with the vintage floral textile styling of the images.
i love this book!
i also have the same complaint about blogs!