In Winter, Tree Sleeps

In Winter, Tree Sleeps is an artists’ book consisting of seven single folios housed together in box. Folios 1-5 contain numbered poems describing an aspect of the life of my family’s fig tree. Some of the poems are read as recollections by family members of specific or important moments in the tree’s life, while others serve as instruction manuals or recipe cards for caring for the fig tree. The final two folios contain ‘amendments’ — my own statements of fragmented memory surrounding the tree. The poems and imagery are printed from photopolymer plates. The type is digitally set Cormorant. The images are halftones created from family photos taken between 1954-1994.

letterpress printing on green Kitakata
7.5 x 5 inches, closed
7.5 x 10 inches, each folio, open

2021-2022