spirit books talk
Here is some information to accompany my illustrated talk on the Spirit Books. If you have attended a talk, I thank you for coming. If you are interested in booking a talk, please contact me.
Spirit Book #99: Chambered Congruity
VIEW THE SPIRIT BOOKS GALLERY
QUOTES
"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lectures and Biographical Sketches: Education
"In this there is no measuring with time. A year doesn't matter; ten years are nothing. To be an artist means not to compute or count; it means to ripen as the tree, which does not force its sap, but stands unshaken in the storms of spring with no fear that summer might not follow. It will come regardless. But it comes only to those who live as though eternity stretches before them, carefree, silent, and endless. I learn it daily, learn it with many pains, for which I am grateful. Patience is all!"
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Nature speaks in symbols and in signs."
John Greenleaf Whittier, to Charles Sumner
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour"
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
PAPER SUPPLIERS
– Paper Connection International, Providence, RI
– Hiromi Paper, Culver City, CA
– Talas, Brooklyn, NY
– Paszkowski Paper, Ukraine, etsy shop
PAPERMAKING INFORMATION
– Amate Paper in San Pablito Video
– Traditional Papermaking in Nepal Video
– Traditional Papermaking in Bhutan Video
ABOUT THE SPIRIT BOOKS
– Boston Globe: A Newburyport artist brings her otherworldly books to the Arnold Arboretum
–Merrimack Valley Magazine: In the absence of words
– Art Plantae: Spirit Books will transform how you think about Nature
– Harvard Gazette: Material Interests: Newburyport artist makes 'spirit books' of bark, seed pods, and roots
– On my blog: The Spirit Books at the Arnold (detailed posts about each of the books in the Arnold Arboretum exhibition)
– Purchase the Spirit Books catalog
MAKING SIMPLE HANDMADE BOOKS
– makingbooks.com, my website for teachers, parents, and children
– The Joy of Making Books, my videos for adults
QUOTES
"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lectures and Biographical Sketches: Education
"In this there is no measuring with time. A year doesn't matter; ten years are nothing. To be an artist means not to compute or count; it means to ripen as the tree, which does not force its sap, but stands unshaken in the storms of spring with no fear that summer might not follow. It will come regardless. But it comes only to those who live as though eternity stretches before them, carefree, silent, and endless. I learn it daily, learn it with many pains, for which I am grateful. Patience is all!"
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Nature speaks in symbols and in signs."
John Greenleaf Whittier, to Charles Sumner
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour"
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
PAPER SUPPLIERS
– Paper Connection International, Providence, RI
– Hiromi Paper, Culver City, CA
– Talas, Brooklyn, NY
– Paszkowski Paper, Ukraine, etsy shop
PAPERMAKING INFORMATION
– Amate Paper in San Pablito Video
– Traditional Papermaking in Nepal Video
– Traditional Papermaking in Bhutan Video
ABOUT THE SPIRIT BOOKS
– Boston Globe: A Newburyport artist brings her otherworldly books to the Arnold Arboretum
–Merrimack Valley Magazine: In the absence of words
– Art Plantae: Spirit Books will transform how you think about Nature
– Harvard Gazette: Material Interests: Newburyport artist makes 'spirit books' of bark, seed pods, and roots
– On my blog: The Spirit Books at the Arnold (detailed posts about each of the books in the Arnold Arboretum exhibition)
– Purchase the Spirit Books catalog
MAKING SIMPLE HANDMADE BOOKS
– makingbooks.com, my website for teachers, parents, and children
– The Joy of Making Books, my videos for adults