Going Out West Handmade Journal
Photos shot on film from a summer road trip turn exhilarating and daring adventures into warm nostalgia for the past. Bold red rocks saturated with glorious oranges and pinks at sunrise dance with quirky sea-foam-colored cacti––and for some reason allow me to admire their precious qualities. The vast, mighty and enchanting presence of the west reminds me of my own smallness and directs my hope upward, to a greater narrative that invites us to empathy and reconciliation with our American home.
In order to make a book cloth, I translated the design into a four layer screen print by stacking magenta, yellow, cyan and black which mixed limitless color. I cut the fabric for this book from four yards of fully printed cloth then sewed together watercolor paper to create an entirely hand-bound book. This process encourages Americans caught up in the digital age to engage with slow-made goods and analog activities like drawing with a pen and paper.
Original design, set for straight repeat
CMYK screen print process
detail shots of four yards screen printed fabric
Final book cloth attached to hand stitched journal.
