I have a lot to say about so many things, but for now I’ll say…Thank you.
I love this book. It appeared in through my mailbox, not too long ago. What a gift!
Jeana Edelman is an artist and writer, a jewelry maker and one who takes long walks, takes photos, has an eye for an image.
Lately, she’s been making small books. These books show up in my mail, intermittently, and each one is a welcome surprise. There is no schedule that I can see, only the natural rhythm of creativity.
I spent the day with her books today, reading her poems and looking at the lines of her drawings. To hold a handmade book with a small, personal distribution, raises an essential question: what does it mean to be published? What does it mean for a work to be public? How many readers does it take? What are we looking for, in asking to be published instead of publishing ourselves? We could write our words in sand or write in cement, in spray paint or walnut shells, or ink on a page.
The books are beautiful.
What are you making? Or thinking, or doing?
Hoping for beautiful days, for all of us.
xo
M
Thank you, Monica! And to all for lovely comments. I realized I could say much more and reach many more (at fraction of price of a single gallery show)
Thanks for introducing me to this artist. I’m so on board with this kind of small-scale distribution/sharing of art, stripped of the distracting layers of gatekeepers, reviewers, platforms and promotion. It’s like, “Here, I made this, wanna see?”