Modestly scaled flutter book of lightweight kozo papers, hand printed passage from Dillard’s book of essays Teaching a Stone to Talk (c. 1982). Highlights of gold accent some of the page spreads.

Dillard’s words:

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: there is nothing there.
. . .

But you wait, you give your life’s length to listening, and nothing happens.
. . .
The silence is not actually suppression: instead, it is all there is.

Materials:

museum board, book cloth, ink, paper, india ink, 24 kt gold leaf, adhesive

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