Ink, brass, wire edge binding, 10 x 10 inches, unique. $1000
26 pieces, wood and ink, 30 x 8 inches, unique. $1200
Thirty six acrylic pages laminated with vellum paper, laser printed text, bound with copper wire. Poem by the artist. 6 x 1.5 x 24 inches, unique. $1200
Ten page circular sculptural book made of acrylic discs covered in vellum paper.
Poem, “The Kids“, ink jet printed on surface, bound with linen cord, edition of 8, 2.75 x 2.75 x 1.75 inches. $500
Binders board, paper, laser printed text on vellum, Poem by the artist, 9 x 6 x 24 inches, unique. $1000
Statement
These books pertain to a series of book objects containing my own poems. I am playing with a combination of visual and verbal poetry. The material, acrylic, allows for an inherent light to emit from the pages which fascinates me as a metaphor for interior illumination. The books are designed to be backlit, displayed near a window for example, almost like a flowering plant that attracts with its color and light. When held in the hand, a more intimate sensation occurs upon reading the text, one that is at times pleasant and at others sad.
Biography
Pamela Moore is an American book artist who has lived in Spain for most of her professional life. She began a career in book arts in San Francisco in the mid eighties after receiving a BFA in Photography from the University of Arizona. In the early 90’s she studied the arts of fine binding in Barcelona which led her to an apprentice with the master Czech binder Jan Sobota. Her one of-a-kind-books became sculptural explorations combining copper and brass with leather with traditional
