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  • Hit The Road, Two!
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    Hit The Road Two!

    Hit the Road Two! is volume two, Oregon, in a series featuring each of the three states that carry Highway 99, the former main corridor that runs all the way through Canada to Mexico. [...]

  • All Sinners Welcome by Laura Russell
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    All Sinners Welcome

    All Sinners Welcome explores do-it-yourself or “DIY” religion in America. Photographs of storefront churches, quirky handmade church signs and expressions of faith in the landscape [...]

  • Good Will & Salvation
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    Good Will & Salvation

    Good Will & Salvation is a tribute to my Mother, an avid thrift store shopper. Whenever we get together we spend our days trolling every Goodwill and Salvation Army store [...]

  • Bless This House: Interior Open
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    Bless This House

    In the summer of 2006, nearly 250 families received notice that their three adjoining mobile home parks in Beaverton, Oregon would be closed and demolished to make way for redevelopment. [...]

  • Hit The Road!
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    Hit The Road!

    Highway 99 runs all the way from Canada to Mexico. In its heyday, Highway 99 was the main corridor through Washington, Oregon and California. Replaced by Interstate 5 in the mid-1960’s, [...]

  • Create: Front Cover
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    Create

    A limited-edition artist book of inspirational quotations about creativity paired with layered paper collages. Explores the innate need we all have to be creative in our day-to-day lives. [...]

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    Casa Milà

    During a magical visit to Barcelona I was completely captivated by Antoni Gaudí’s architecture. My husband and I saw every Gaudí site in town and were awed by the magic of his creations. [...]

  • Colfax Day & Night: Cover Open View
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    Colfax Day & Night

    Colfax Avenue is a special street in the hearts and minds of all Denverites. Its past is a colorful history of roadside landmarks and infamous travelers. Its present is a different kind of colorful [...]

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    Nocturne

    Feel the sizzle of electricity, the sparkle of a million lights. Neon lights up our skylines and enlivens our nights. The street at night is a symphony, orchestrated by automobiles, pedestrians [...]

  • Urban Decay: Front Cover
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    Urban Decay

    In my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan, decades of poverty and the decline of the automotive business are creating an urban blight that is heartbreaking. Lost factory jobs lead to lost homes [...]

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    Neon A-Z

    This miniature ABC book contains photographs of letters found on vintage neon signs. The alphabet letters are paired with terminology and fun facts from the fascinating world of neon artistry [...]

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    Urban Poetry: Street Seens

    Street Seens is the third book in the Urban Poetry series of artist books that explore various types of street graphics found in our urban environment. The search for these images has taken me [...]

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    Urban Poetry NYC

    This artist book showcases stencil graffiti found on the streets of New York City. The graffiti creates poetic and profound statements about the social issues of our times and carries [...]

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    Consumption Junction

    Consumerism and simplicity are two themes that show up frequently in my work. Consumption Junction, classified as a “miniature book,” is a compilation of photographs of consumerist [...]

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    Simplify

    A limited-edition artist book of inspirational quotes about simplifying one’s life. Explores ideas to reduce the complexity and chaos of our fast-paced world and reasons to appreciate the simpler [...]

  • Urban Poetry: Interior Spread
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    Urban Poetry

    “Stop the Bombing” and “Love is a Revolution.” These are just two examples of stencil graffiti found in the neighborhoods surrounding downtown Denver. The graffiti carries anti-consumer, anti-war [...]

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    Colorado Wall Dogs

    Colorado Wall Dogs: Ghost Signs Across the State. This limited-edition artist book is an effort to preserve Colorado’s historic painted brick wall ghost signs by cataloging and photographing [...]

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    Fly: Aviation’s Pioneer Women

    Accordion structure artist book that celebrates the women of aviation’s history. Quotations from these pioneer women are paired with handmade paper collages depicting a runway, a compass [...]

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    Lakeside: An American Icon

    Lakeside Amusement Park in Denver was billed by ambitious investors in 1908 as the “Coney Island of the West.” This photographic artist book explores the timeless architecture, graphics, neon [...]

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    Heads Up!

    Heads Up! showcases photographs of stencil graffiti in a hanging book format. Using a grommet on the front cover, the book can be hung on a wall, allowing the pages to cascade down [...]

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