Populus tremuloides One
© 2025
Edition of unique artists book
Dimensions in inches (closed): 7.7 x 5.3 x 1.25
Materials
Book: paper, relief printing ink, cold water dye, museum board, pencil, suede, brass, leather, wood, brass, tyvek, acrylic, hot foil
Box: book board, goat, relief printing ink, cold water dye, book cloth, suede, hot foil
Relief and over dyed papers carry images of aspen leaves and handwritten text. The book block is bound in a staple binding of monoprinted goat with copper plate etching. Articulated covers have fore edge yapps with brass rod inserts. Paper backed suede fly leaf The text is a glimpse into one of the artists' many reasons to love aspen trees (Populus tremuloides) above any other tree species.
Housed in drop-spine box with suede doublure and spine lining. Tray is lined with relief-printed & dyed paper. Box spine is mono-printed goat, box covers are relief printed and dyed paper. Spine label is hot foil.
Full text:
I don’t have an answer to the question ‘what is your favorite color’?
I probably don’t have a single answer for any question that begins with ‘what is your favorite . . . ‘?
Why choose one favorite anything?
Although I do have a favorite species of tree - Populus tremuloides.
This is not the same as naming favorite trees. I have many favorite trees
Like the majestic ash trees in my front yard.
I love how their leaves change the color of light when the sun is setting - green in the summer, golden in the fall.
Another favorite is a wizened and gnarly, multi-trunk juniper in a nearby park.
When I walk by, I stop and lean against its prickly trunk and look upward; the branches so dense the sky shatters into little bits.
Perhaps considering my long list of favorite trees is a project for another day.
Back to the question ‘what is my favorite color’? My answer depends on time of year.
My favorite green in the springtime is theshade of newly emerging aspen leaves.
The color of aspen leaves deepens as the spring turns to summer — a darker, dustier shade of green.
That particular shade of green, bright against the white bark of aspen groves,
ushering in warmer days in the high country sends my heart soaring.
Populus tremuloides One
© 2025
Edition of unique artists book
Dimensions in inches (closed): 7.7 x 5.3 x 1.25
Materials
Book: paper, relief printing ink, cold water dye, museum board, pencil, suede, brass, leather, wood, brass, tyvek, acrylic, hot foil
Box: book board, goat, relief printing ink, cold water dye, book cloth, suede, hot foil
Relief and over dyed papers carry images of aspen leaves and handwritten text. The book block is bound in a staple binding of monoprinted goat with copper plate etching. Articulated covers have fore edge yapps with brass rod inserts. Paper backed suede fly leaf The text is a glimpse into one of the artists' many reasons to love aspen trees (Populus tremuloides) above any other tree species.
Housed in drop-spine box with suede doublure and spine lining. Tray is lined with relief-printed & dyed paper. Box spine is mono-printed goat, box covers are relief printed and dyed paper. Spine label is hot foil.
Full text:
I don’t have an answer to the question ‘what is your favorite color’?
I probably don’t have a single answer for any question that begins with ‘what is your favorite . . . ‘?
Why choose one favorite anything?
Although I do have a favorite species of tree - Populus tremuloides.
This is not the same as naming favorite trees. I have many favorite trees
Like the majestic ash trees in my front yard.
I love how their leaves change the color of light when the sun is setting - green in the summer, golden in the fall.
Another favorite is a wizened and gnarly, multi-trunk juniper in a nearby park.
When I walk by, I stop and lean against its prickly trunk and look upward; the branches so dense the sky shatters into little bits.
Perhaps considering my long list of favorite trees is a project for another day.
Back to the question ‘what is my favorite color’? My answer depends on time of year.
My favorite green in the springtime is theshade of newly emerging aspen leaves.
The color of aspen leaves deepens as the spring turns to summer — a darker, dustier shade of green.
That particular shade of green, bright against the white bark of aspen groves,
ushering in warmer days in the high country sends my heart soaring.
