Light Page is the term we have coined for any image which derives much of its effect through transmitted light, whether it is a 35mm slide, a multi-media projection, a work on CD or DVD displayed on your computer monitor, on the web, or on an LCD. Who knows where we will show up next?
An artist’s book, even one incorporating digital technology, generally refers to a presentation of a more artisan nature, quite likely a limited edition or one of a kind.
By traditional book, we mean a printed collection. Our collections, whether individual broadsheets or bound collections, tend to be short run editions.
We use the term Poem Page to mean our work in which the words of a poem appear in the same visual field as a visual image, usually a photograph. The conventional term broadsheet can refer to words or visual images or both printed on a single sheet. A Japanese surimono was always a poem and a picture printed on the same woodcut. But we felt neither term quite describes the way we combine the poem idea expressed in words with the same or complimentary idea expressed visually.
One plus one can be more than two so Marnie and Ann call their verbal/visual collaboration threehalf press.
Marnie’s poems speak of our world with a lyric and spiritual sensitivity which reveals her scientific background in natural history.
Ann practices as a psychologist and photographs private experience in its own natural light.
A nationally-recognized science teacher, Mickie makes available the ever-evolving reaches of digital technology.
Song Dynasty China scholar-artists collaborated in producing scrolls and albums adorned with painting, poem, and calligraphy of great beauty. Japanese poetry clubs commissioned the finest artists of their day to design their annual surimono, and the most skillful craftmen printed these wood cuts. So we too are exploring the verbal/visual interface of expression in the modern world.
Pictures need not merely illustrate poems. Words do not just narrate what a photograph shows. We invite you – the reader, listener, viewer, thinker – into the process.