Reading Womb (2025)

Hysteria 1892 wallpaper by Perkins & Co (2025) cardboard and egg carton pulp (2.3m x 3.65m) installation view, Harvest and Gather’s Missed Connections Exhibition, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, Calif.

Reading Womb (2024-5) artists books: Gathering / Soft Spot / Womb for Love, fire hose, egg carton pulp, canvas threads, denim, rubber bands (Gathering 10 x 10.5 x 8 cm / yellow leaf segments 8 x 5 x 2.5 cm each) studio images of artists books

inspired by The La Jolla Club for Women, who met on the site of the current Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, where I imagined Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s The Yellow Wallpaper might have been read.