Rise Up

A companion piece to the large mixed media sculpture Woke Woman Walks, this book stitches together remnants from the larger piece, includes images and poetry (Ginny Hoyle), and is pierced by black tacks. Rise Up and Woke Woman Walks are inspired by The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood: an imagined protective robe for women living in a culture of misogyny. The idea is wrapping one’s body with roses where the thorns are on the outside and flowers on the inside. 2019

Exhibited at Word, Image, Object, a juried exhibition by Abecedarian Artists Books at the Denver Public Library in 2019. In the University of Denver Special Collections.

Details: 8” x 6 ½” x 2 ½”; 84 pages, mixed media cased into hardcover pierced with black tacks