Katherine Venturelli

Windows of Change

This accordion fold book includes six embossed pages and six intaglio prints on white Rives BKF paper, and is housed in a wood slipcase box with a copper etching attached to the front.

Artist Katherine Venturelli said: "Windows of Change represents my efforts to merge text and symbolic imagery into a personal statement about terms of time and change. Because of the personal content of the handwritten text, I chose to use graphite with its softer edges rather than ink. The book's concertina format was selected to emphasize the unfolding of time or the facets of change; a physical pathway into the inner spirit.”

Press: Constructed by the Artist
Date: 1994
Number and Edition: 3 of 10
Size: 6” x 6”

Windows of Change

The copper plates used to create the numbered edition of Windows of Change were hinged together with copper rivets and leather to produce a one-of-a-kind accordion fold book. The piece is housed in a black wooden box.

Artist Katherine Venturelli said: "These are the original copper plates utilized in the printing of the paper edition. I recycled these beautiful plates into a unique book structure. I like how the reflective and ephemeral surface quality of copper has added new dimensions to my book forms. Working with the ‘copper pages’ has been a challenge for me; I have had to re-think and re-invent.”

Press: Constructed by the Artist
Date: 1997
Number and Edition: 1 of 1
Size: 5.25” x 5”