Artist Statement:
As I dye cloth and work on larger textile pieces, I shed scraps constantly. In turn, these scraps become collages in both two and three dimensions. For two-dimensional collages, metallic thread joins the smaller pieces. I use the larger pieces to wrap boards that I bind together, re-mixing as visual, three-dimensional books and to be read in a new way. Seemingly unwanted scraps are re-mixed to become a new whole in another form.
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Alisa Golden works with words, ink, and fibers, and is the editor of Star 82 Review. She has worked in a used book store, an art-supply store, and taught writing, letterpress printing, and bookmaking around the San Francisco Bay Area for many years. Her book art may be found in the special collections of libraries across the United States, and her stories, poems, and artwork have been published in Blink-Ink, One Sentence Poems, Diagram, Nanoism, and Streetcake Magazine, among others. She is the author of Making Handmade Books (Sterling/Lark).