According to Cherith Lundin, the handcrafted artist book Surface Incidents (created this year in an edition of 50) began from an intentional reshuffling of some of the piles of raw material that inhabit her studio space—materials that she often finds “quietly carrying on conversations behind the scenes from one table top to the next.”
“I hope to cultivate space to think about who we are as nurturers of our relationships and of the land,” writes Sayde Laine Anderson on her website (saydelaine.com). As a multimedia artist, illustrator, fiber artist, designer, teacher, and community builder, Anderson’s work across different media, landscapes, and communities is a continual engagement of the hyperlocal, the mended, the gathered, and the repurposed.