Artist: Barbara Livingston

Material: Pulp, handmade paper, bone, sinew, linen cord

Size: 11.5" x 14" x 0.5"

Hanging wall piece regenerating discarded handmade papers and pulp combined with bone embellishments and hand-tied linen cord reinforcements. Bound in a Japanese stab binding using sinew strips.

BIO

Barbara began as a weaver, teacher, and textile/surface design artist before finding bookarts in NC 20 years ago. Her work has been to explore binding and structure with many creations evolving into sculptural pieces. For this show, she has used the tunnel book structure to express her personal early delight in reading pulp fiction and a fond memory of her mother always having a paperback in the 40s. In Beaten to A Pulp, she uses scrap exchanged handmade papers with her own attempt at making pulp to offer a piece of more quiet reflection, yet finding a way to offer beauty created from recycling of discards. Make we find a way to build new structure within which we all can fulfill our need to better communicate and regenerate harmony.