Susan Joy Share ~ Alaska

Headbanded Strips
By Susan Joy Share
Anchorage, Alaska: 2004. Series of 21.

3.5 x 26 x 5" accordion fold. Materials used: handmade paper, waxed linen cord, crayon, colored pencil, photo, hog gut, gel medium, and acrylic. A sewn headband runs the length of the top of the accordion. Sewn headband displays so that it is visible at the top of the piece.

Each in this edition of 21 is unique. The colors and threads are different to each piece so that one may be light and cheerful while another is darker in color and becomes a little more somber in tone.
$400 each

Traverse
By Susan Joy Share
Anchorage, Alaska: 2002. One-of-a-Kind.

5 x 5 x 8" with fan binding. Materials include steel anchor, felted wool, handmade paper, wire, colored pencil, and collage. Binding is lashed with wire to a steel railroad anchor.

Share explores the book as structure, sculpture, and as a container for words and images. In this piece she has taken a steel railroad anchor to form a flower with page-like petals that unfold.
$485

Brooklyn Bridge Resuspended
By Susan Joy Share
Anchorage, Alaska: 2000. One-of-a-Kind.

18 x 12.5" closed; 9 x 25 x 18" open. Materials used paper, board, cloth, acrylic, and cord. Centerfold pop-up. In a cloth case binding.

Share moved from New York to Alaska in 1997. She grew up in upstate New York but worked several decades in New York City. This pop-up suggests the dynamic tension of the city.
$800

I Never Learned to Knit
By Susan Joy Share
Anchorage, Alaska: 2000. Edition of 2.

Words and images appear and disappear when the Jacob's ladder structure is manipulated. This is the 'magic wallet' version of the Jacob's ladder structure. It doesn't unfold page after page but simply opens to reveal one set of words and objects when opened from the left side and another when opened from the right.

"I never learned to knit, really, but I did learn to cook, clean and crochet and many other things a girl should know."
$850

Tool Celebration
By Susan Joy Share
Anchorage, Alaska: 1999. Edition of 25.

7 x 7 x .25" Portfolio book structure. Paper, fabric, photo, and cardboard.

Moved by a celebration honoring tools, the bookmaker-binder offers her own act of thanks.

Susan Joy Share: "The text in this folio-book commemorates a tool celebration in Bali, and celebrates the binder's tools by presenting hand-cut board models of a bonefolder, mini-spatula, awl and scissors."
$125

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