Sunday, December 3, 2006

166 - Pistoles Press

Diligence is the Source of Empowerment

1. Diligence is the Source of Empowerment
Lana Lambert is a block printer and printing press collector in Virginia

Untitled 3

2. Untitled 3
Her print work is inspired by Japanese woodblock techniques, and seems to have an Arts and Crafts influence as well.

Arbouricon I

3. Arbouricon I
All of her work invokes images of nature and is "....made to show an individual a moment in time in a forest."

Arbouricon II

4. Arbouricon II
In my eyes, however, her greatest accomplishment comes in the form of altered books and papercuts.

Scholar's Reference

5. Scholar's Reference
These book sculptures features the alteration of thick hardcover tomes, or papercut pages bound together in between wooden covers.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

i was almost getting tired of seeing artworks on here but then arbouricon ii made it all worth while!
it's gorgeous.
i wish i had an extra thousand bones...
jd

Anonymous said...

boingboing.net posted this today.
thought you might be interested - i certainly was.
jd

Anonymous said...

this last post makes no sense without this:
http://www.petegoldlust.com/carvedcrayons.html#

also, i posted twice yesterday...
jd