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Paper
Traveling Bookshelf in Sicily
Movana Chen just completed a 2-week residency at Studio Sicilia, and was working on her Traveling to Your Bookshelf Project. She's been knitting my paper book manuscript into part of a giant scarf she's been making for years, made of …
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Books into Art
There's a lot of controversy these days in the publishing industry. Traditional ways of publishing are no longer viable options: they involve killing lots of trees and shipping them around the world to bookstores. Pixels are a lot lighter, and …
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Studio Sicilia’s Finished!
Blue windows shocked the neighbors last year ("Nobody paints their windows blue around here," they said) but they've grown to like them Studio Sicilia is finished! Well, the upstairs is, anyway. After years of dreaming and saving and slogging away, …
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Imaginary Landscapes of Betel-Nut Island
A virtual exhibition of the best artwork from my Artists Residency at Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang) Imaginary Landscapes of Betel-Nut Island from Elizabeth Briel on Vimeo. You can find out more about how I made these pieces here. Music by …
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Layouts and Landscapes
After weeks of testing out materials, exposure times, and half-baked ideas, I'm in the final stretch of my residency here at USM (Universiti Sains Malaysia). Now I'm working on large-scale art that's building on what came before (currently on exhibition …
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Mid-Residency Exhibition
Artists have a dirty little secret: Every masterpiece you encounter in a museum was built on top of many failures. And you never see these other works. All that we see is what made the cut. If an artist is …
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Negative Days
Light bounces off a transparent negative held up to a dark background, the ink reflects light and shows up positive. It is from negatives like this I make my Cyanotype prints. The original photo was of a papermaker from a …
Old Materials, Modern Tools
My favorite papermaker Supan Promsen with his niece and a woodblock printed on his paper, 1 x 2 meters Each day I walk into my studio, and as I look over my work-in-progress, the paper I’ve been painting gives me a …
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Why I Can’t Afford Cheap Art Materials
Studio table I’ve always been preoccupied with the materials I use in my paintings and prints. It’s been such an obsession I’m writing a book about my travels to discover different papers for artwork. This week I stopped by an …
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Chiang Mai Shopping List
Last week I took a train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, Thailand’s second-biggest city. In my trusty notebook I had a page that read: “SHOPPING LIST “15 pieces of Banana Paper for the paper book,” [Last year I’d tried to …
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