Paper Arts ~ California
(Marie Kelzer)

Paste paper pattern bookworks by Marie Kelzer
Political bookworks by Marie Kelzer

The Paper Book 1999 The Electronic Book 2000
By Marie Kelzer
San Francisco: Paper Arts, Edition of 18.

A book plus a CD. Fine, paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Enclosed in cardboard box with lid covered in gold paper with paste paper title label on top.

The Paper Book 1999 is an essay, "Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge", which has been widely reproduced on the Internet. There are several earlier versions. The topic is the same: The Paper BOOK vs. The Electronic BOOK.
$45

Paste Paper Creations:
By the Ocean
By Marie Kelzer
San Francisco: Paper Arts, 2009. Edition of 4.

12.25 x 10.5 x .5"; 16 pages. Hand-lettered text using archival pigment ink. Original paste papers, handpainted by the artist using acrylic paints and methyl cellulose paste, mounted onto the cover and pages. Text paper is Neeneh Classic Crest; cover paper is French Speckletone Paper covered with paste papers. Softcover binding with stubbed pages handsewn into linen tapes. Housed in black/tan clamshell box with paper lining and labels.

A compilation of 13 selected handpainted paste paper designs by Marie Kelzer representing the colors of the ocean. This book was originally commissioned by a private customer.

Marie Kelzer, About This Book: "My inspiration comes from the patterns and colors of the nearby ocean. …At this time, the ebbs and flows are more than ever a part of daily life. As the paste papers suggest, everything is not always as it appears on the surface. The foundation has been set and what is yet to come is as changeable as the daily shifting sands but in ways as predictable as the tides...."
$600

Paste Paper Patterns
By Marie Kelzer
San Francisco: Paper Arts.

Each volume: 5 x 8" 64 pages with 50 paste papers. Designed, written and typed using Microsoft Publisher 2000. Paper used Mohawk Superfine 80## text, softwhite with a smooth finish. Printed on a HP Deskjet 7130xi. Folded signatures sewn on tapes. Stubbing used to accommodate tipped in plates.

Each volume is a compilation of fifty paste paper designs, which Marie Kelzer created and painted from 1989 through 2007. Beside each Plate number is a list of the primary tools used in creating the specific design. Over the years Marie has collected a wide assortment of tools. A dozen pastry rollers with square indentations cut out ere found at a garage sale. Kelzer incorporates the pastry roller in creating designs along with combs as finishing touches. By changing the technique used she creates different designs using the same tool and the same patterns using different colors or tones.

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Volume I

Volume II

Volume I:
(2002)

Papers created from 2000 through 2003
Standard version with scanned images of the paste papers. $65

Volume IV:
(2007)

Volume V:
(2008)

Volume V

Seven Deadly Sins + Seven Heavenly Virtues.
Lessons from the Financial Crisis of 2008
By Marie Kelzer
San Francisco: Paper Arts, 2009. Edition of 7.

5.5 x 4.5 x .5"; 96 pages. Computer designed and printed on Mohawk Superfine 80# text. 24 fonts used. Text represented in a ticker tape fashion. Chapter Heading pages with tipped on paste papers. Numbers hand stamped on paste papers. Original hand-painted paste paper designs, using acrylic paints and methyl cellulose paste. Hand sewn onto linen tapes with paste paper-covered boards and spine.

Marie Kelzer: "This book harbors on the theme of the 7 deadly sins, one of which is greed, paired up with the 7 heavenly virtues. The inspiration grew out of the 2008 October Surprise. The surprise was not the invasion of IRAN by the lame duck president George W. Bush but the economic meltdown due largely to the housing bubble creating a large number of subprime mortgages leading to a plethora of credit derivatives and the presence of greed in the beginning of the 21st Century which led to a liquidity crisis and finally a recession, locally and globally. Human nature cannot resist taking a gamble on a good deal. We all hope that this financial crisis steers humankind away from deadly sins toward the heavenly virtues. A glossary of the sins and virtues plus the descriptive terms of the financial crisis is included."
$125

Questionable Privilege:
A Ticker Tape Treatise
By Marie Kelzer
San Francisco: Paper Arts, 2007. Edition of 3.

8.5 x 6.75"; 96 pages. Computer designed and printed on 80 lb. cover Neenah paper. Six signatures sewn on linen tapes and case bound. Paste paper cover over boards. Paste Paper dust jacket. Printed on Epson Stylus Photo R1800. Text set in Freedom 9 & Voltage. Design, written, and bound by Marie Kelzer.

From the introduction: "This book represents a ticker tape treatise on the beginning of the 21st Century and the George W. Bush Regime. In this year of 2007, it is not hard to understand what is happening, only why it is allowed to continue to happen,,,,"

A screed of frustration.
$125 (Last Copy)

History Repeats: Word by Word
By Marie Kelzer
San Francisco: Paper Arts, 2005. Edition of 2.

5.75 x 8"; 128 pages. Handsewn on tapes. Bound with original paste paper over boards. Text words printed using disbound calendar pages from the Portable Desk Planner by Sun Graphix. Designed using Microsoft Word. Text set in Sylfaen. WORDS printed using WordArt. Printed on HP Officejet 7130xi.

Marie Kelzer: "Sadly history does repeat. This book signifies so with the words and actions of lies, deception, and destruction [that] exists today [as] it always has. It is often hard to see the forest for the trees."

Preface: "This book consists of a series of WORDS printed onto calendar pages. These WORDS connote the general malaise which we experience throughout the world in the present, past, and future. It is an especially difficult time to believe in equality and quality of life for all people.

"While history gives us opportunities to learn from mistakes and injustices there are always the more powerful, more selfish individuals that do not see how their actions affect others. It is the little things that turn into injustices, often because of greed, boredom, anger, and selfishness. We all are guilty of putting our own priorities above those of others and the general good of all.

"While many words are used they can be replaced over time with three words, Equality, Justice and Love...."
$95