Portals on Camino de Oeste from Paper Portals Press (CarolynLeigh.com)

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Portals on Camino de Oeste

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[Terra Mater Amo by Junardi Armstrong]
Terra Mater Amo

[Tangled by Lynne Carnes]
Tangled

[Reaching for Bedrock by Curt Dornberg]
Reaching for Bedrock

[Dry Water by Carolyn Leigh]
Dry Water

[Camino de Oeste Textures by Ann Richwine]
Camino de Oeste Textures

[Camino del Oeste by Donn Sanford]
Camino del Oeste

[Portals on Camino de Oeste case: 19k]

A sun-washed February morning warmed six diverse book artists as they separately explored the tributaries of a wandering Sonoran desert wash flowing from the Tucson Mountains west of Arizona's Old Pueblo. With unique backgrounds and skills -- calligrapher, painter, photographer, printer, binder and papermaker -- each sought inspiration for a project that would become their first collaborate book.

Each noted significant elements of the wash, compiling a list from which their text would flow. Some were literal, others mystical, others merely imagined.

The result is a collection of six distinctive books that comprise a collaborative limited edition titled Portals on Camino de Oeste. Appropriate design and production details are found in each book. Each vision and concept is naturally and engagingly different, yet a similar vein courses through the set: butterflies float yellow rust prickly shadows crunch of sand dry water blue mountains purple highway refuge.

Twenty-six lettered copies and six numbered Artists Proofs (hors commerce) have been produced.

Designed and handmade by the group, the case dimensions are 7x5.5x4 opening to 41 inches (18x14x10 to 104 cm). It is constructed using book board, Iris cloth for the cover, Gocco printed panels and hand painted Moriki paper covering the box pockets. The case closes with a silver "S" hook held by a ribbon.

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©Paper Portals, 2004, www.paperportals.com
Dedicated to our colleague and friend,
Donn Sanford, June 4, 1940 - August 30, 2004.
Junardi Armstrong, Lynne Carnes, Curt Dornberg, Carolyn Leigh and Ann Richwine

Photographs by Kathleen Bober at www.kathleenbober.com.