For my sculptural book project, Time is Not Linear, I worked at forging steel, papermaking, printmaking and binding. The physical effect of this series of four Coptic bound artist books is to encounter an episode in time and space. 

Each set of steel covers in this series is unique. For the interior covers I printed my hand-drawn, hand-carved linocuts onto my pulp paintings. The colors and linocuts are different for each of the books. The raw hemp pages, some pigmented to a silvery gray hue, show irregularity in their deckle edges, and are quite translucent, even without light shining through them. I read about physics to learn something of how things fit together. Science finds that time is not independent from space, and that there is no “absolute time.” Everything is in motion in these sculpted books—the twists and turns of the steel, undulating printed patterns, and the fluidity of the pages as they settle into positions. Each time opened, the books create different waves and sounds.