Love, on gallery display, backlit

An artist’s book, hand-illustrated and handwoven, written for the love of my life. The blackletter type was set in InDesign, then carefully traced on vellum with a quill pen.

“Last night, I dreamt of you…

…and when I woke my breathing
was desperately repeating.”

 

using ink and a quill pen for blackletter typea poem written on vellum paper, over a painting of grayscale loverspeekhole cut into cover reveals "L" as the start of the poem