Cave Paper East ~ Minnesota
(Amanda Degener)

land(scaped)
By Amanda Degener and Barbara Schubring
Deer Isle, Maine: Cave Paper East. Edition of 80.

6.75 x 12.5"; 9 leaves. Accordion structure. Handmade paper. Collage. In clamshell box covered in matching handmade paper. Title on front of box

Amanda Degener: "My work explores the dynamic inter-relationship between environment and inhabitant. I draw attention to unique aspects of local ecosystems and hope to evoke feelings towards the natural world that we more typically reserve for other humans: empathy, compassion, care. Most of my work incorporates text, both as pattern and content; I am interested in the ways we use language to separate us from the natural world, as if we were born into instead of out of nature."

Here the subject is earth becoming property and land becoming landscaped. An accordion of simple images and text on pages of thick, handmade paper. Each succeeding panel of the accordion is slightly larger, and the top edges are torn to resemble rolling hills, then the peaked roofs of individual homes, and finally the flat tops of high rises.
$250 unboxed
$350 in a clamshell box

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The artists: "We find that roundness, as opposed to square or triangular is the proper shape to express this concept of the inseparable nature of idea and material. We make no distinction between the idea, and the expressive quality of the work materials, they become one. This book explores the inter-relationship between environment and both the material and spiritual world. It draws attention to our ecosystem and it evokes feelings towards the natural world that we more typically reserve for other humans: empathy, compassion, and care. The cyclical nature of breathing is essentially round, to inhale to exhale and then inhale again over and over. The book contains words that start with the letter "o" and a kallitype of the Hopewell Serpentine Mound* [is] included. Nature also is cyclical with passing repeating seasons: earth, seed, spirit, plant and back to earth again are the words that circle the sphere. This book is a wheel, a turning wheel that transforms to fit in the hand. The imagery includes round objects like sewn-in fabric of a round game ball and a playable CD. The CD will be a collage of sounds related to the collaborative performance by the artists at Phipps Center for the Arts [on] Dec 15th, 2002."

* Hopewell Serpentine Mound is located in southern Ohio. It is a large earthen spiral structure in the shape of a partially coiled serpent. Hopewell refers to the common aspects of early Native American culture thatflourished in that area.
$500 (Last Copy)