April is poetry month and I’ve been looking at artist’s books with a poetry theme. Carole Kunstadt has a series called “Sacred Poems” where she says
The primary element used in this series is paper: the pages are taken from a Parish Psalmody dated 1844 and 1849. These pages of psalms are manipulated and recombined, resulting in a presentation that evokes an ecumenical offering – poems of praise and gratitude. The disintegrating pages suggest the temporal quality of our lives and the vulnerability of memory and history. In working with this aged text, embracing its inherent qualities while transforming the book’s pages, the paper itself gains significance through the process and merges with a new intent.
Here are a few of her books, and you can see them all here.
