Inkling Score Series

Inkling Score (variable: #1 - #18)

2022

Handmade artist book

Archival ink jet print on Niyodo paper

The Inkling Score series of handmade accordion books are visual scores that propose an alternative map or way of reading a place. Symmetrical inkblots, originally made using natural inks, are arranged in patterns that make visual phrases. The center folds of the inkblots are horizontally aligned as a sightline, a timeline, a landscape, a sonagram. The original inks are made from seagrass, kelp, black walnut, acorns, rust, pokeberry, sumac, marigold, goldenrod, blueberry—all harvested in Maine and the Catskill Mountains. These fugitive inks change quickly. To capture the fleeting alchemy, I scan and digitally print the visual phrases using archival inks on Niyodo paper. These phrases are then folded along vertical intervals to make accordion books. These books are bound in either green, red, or blue book cloth, depending on the region where the ink materials were harvested. “Inklings” bound in green are from Midcoastal Maine. Those bound in red are from the woods surrounding my home in Woodstock, NY. Those bound in blue are from a broader region of the Catskill Mountains.