Handmade Books

Los que dieron sus alas están tristes, de no verlas volar.

[Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.]

Antonio Porchia



Emerging from algae

Living among filaments

Science obsolete


[Handmade accordion book]


Painful trouble flares

different choices split old bonds

loss can be a birth


[Handmade accordion book]


Eina  |  From 2016 to 2017 I accompanied a little beautiful boy (two years old) in achildren's hospice Berlin. This book is dedicated to him.

©2022 Handmade book. 10,00 x 34,7 cm.

 “Nature’s Brush” , 2023. Accordion Book.

Made on the occasion of the exhibition in 2023 “Dampfer, Deiche, Dramen” at

“Museum Kunst der Westküste”, Island of Föhr, Germany.  

Monotypes printed onto Japanese Gampi paper, beeswax, pencil

onto archival museum board, 100% cotton fiber .

Size: 20 x 240 cm

 Immer [Always] 2022. Accordion Book. Pencil on Japanese Kozo paper. 80 x 180 mm [January 2022]

Dedicated to Kenneth Maue

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