Book artist: Lisa Kokin

Artist: Lisa Kokin
Website: Lisa Kokin
The 28-page full color catalog Ex Libro is available from Donna Seager Gallery

Books have played a major role in my work, although I do not work exclusively in the book form. I return to books between other bodies of work and they become bodies of work in and of themselves. In my current series of reassembled books, I literally reshape the content of selected old books by making papier mache balls, organ-like objects, rocks and other shapes out of the shredded and pulped pages; I then either sew the contents back inside and outside of the original book covers or allow them to function on their own as sculpture. Bits and pieces of the text remain, although the literal meaning is lost.