Statement: “Through our work we seek to evoke and bring awareness to the powerful transformative events and feelings that nature reveals. As the human understanding and experience of Nature becomes ever more digitally mediated -- if not cybernetic -- and distanced from direct kinesthetic interaction we see our work as a prompt to remind the viewer, and ourselves, that we are just an extension of Nature.”

A lovely article in the UC Berkeley Library News about book artist Lauri Twitchell (also manager of the Blake Garden).

Hide and Seek
By Lauri Twitchell
Berkeley, California: redstartstudio, 2018. One-of-a-Kind.

4 x 5.25 x 3"; 8 fold-out pages. Materials: ceramic, cotton, ink, collage, wood, world map fragments, travel book pages. Map fragments collaged onto text pages from old travel guides. Wooden book boards. Sewn binding. Title carved into front board. Laid in heavy fabric wrapper with velcro closure. Signed and dated by the artist.

Lauri Twitchell: "Hide and seek, a kids game played in many cultures, is a metaphor for how we wander through the world, actively searching for something or sitting back to see how things unfold. Synonyms for 'hide' and 'seek' are found along a path under stone tracings with maps attached as you travel through the book."
$800

Making Waves
By Lauri Twitchell & Peter Suchecki
Berkeley, California: Lauri Twitchell, 2018. One-of-a-Kind.

7" x 3" x 4.5" double sided accordion structure. Materials: Ebony, stone, ceramic, cotton, collage, wasp nest, rami. Bound in ebony boards with stone and puppet hand attached to front board. Puppet hand by Peter Suchecki. Laid in hand made wrapper with snap closure made by Suchecki. Book design by Lauri Twitchell. Dated. Signed by both artists.

Lauri Twitchell: "This book started with a stone that I found on the shores of Lake Superior. I have been carrying this rock around for years in my car across the country, and in and around my house. Many have picked it up and tossed it: up and down; in hand; or held onto it. It's the perfect hand size. Puppet hands (also hanging around the house) came together with the 'doirneag' and then became the impetus for telling the story of this rock making waves as it was tossed back into the lake. Ripples are the story of its origin."
$2,200

Rough Language
By Lauri Twitchell & Peter Suchecki
Berkeley, California: redstartstudio, 2018. One-of-a-Kind.

8" x 5.5" x 7.5" closed. Accordion structure. Materials: stone, leather, redwood, cotton, collage, ink, mortar. Found rock attached to front board. Back board with mortared rock base. Laid in custom wrapper made by Suchecki. Title machine stitched on wrapper. Signed by both artists. Dated.

Lauri Twitchell: "It started with a pile of rocks mortared together that became the foundation for this book of synonyms for the poem 'rough language'."
$1,800

Tumble
By Laurie Twitchell
Berkeley, California: redstartstudio, 2018. One-of-a-Kind.

5 x 7 x 9.5"; 31 leaves (verso blank). Collage. Materials: schist, leather, wood, hemp, cotton, ink, raw silk. Bound in found wooden board. Signed and dated by the artist.

Lauri Twitchell: "Turning a rock around in my hands every angle reveals an interesting form. I trace around the contour of the rock and transfer it to paper and now it becomes a story of the rock tumbling around the page or through space. Synonyms for the word 'tumble' are collaged on each page with text and maps from old travel guides."
$850

Sticks & Rocks
By Lauri Twitchell & Peter Suchecki
Berkeley, California: Lauri Twitchell & Peter Suchecki, 2016.
One-of-a-Kind.

4 x 5 x 10"; 40 pages. Materials: blackwood acacia, cotton, hemp, dirt, graphite, walnut ink, watercolor, raw silk. Handprinted text. In natural wood boards with coptic binding. Signed and dated by the artists.

redstartstudio: "Looking for and using the most elemental materials seems to be a logical and an organic way to tell a metaphorical story in the natural world. Landslide materials slide down the page and leave an earthen stain. Later, sticks, and rocks found along a wooded trail are traced onto paper and a map of the experience emerges."
$1,000

Bark Book
By Lauri Twitchell & Peter Suchecki
California: Lauri Twitchell, 2016. One-of-a-Kind.

6 x 11 x7" bark pages bound in pine bark boards with hemp cord binding. Materials: Melaleuca bark, stone pine bark, leather, nails, hemp.

Lauri Twitchell & Peter Suchecki : “We find things on the ground. The thing’s texture, form, color or reminiscence of another form begins a process of developing a story. The story can be fictional, non-fictional, or poetic. Bark Book started with fallen sheets of melaleuca bark that had peeled from its trunk then dropped to the ground and lay folded like pages of a book. The poetic text and the image of landscape seemed to be already imbedded in the bark. Adding to it would be superfluous. The cover of Bark Book is of pine bark from a tree that had fallen a year before. The book is bound with a hybrid binding using hemp cord.”
(SOLD)

between a rock and a hard place
By Lauri Twitchell
Berkeley, California: Lauri Twitchell, 2016. One-of-a-Kind.

3 x 3 x 3"; 8 leaves of slate. Materials: slate; acrylic, thread. Coptic bound.

Laurie Twitchell: "A coptic bound book of slate pages describing a place that we often find ourselves in.

"My work is informed by the natural world. Whether it is using text, sound, images, or objects, from/or about the land."

(SOLD)

here you are
By Lauri Twitchell
Berkeley, California: redstartstudio, 2018. One-of-a-Kind.

5 x 6 x 7" double-sided accordion. Collage. Bound in wooden boards. Cloth wrap with tie closure. Materials: birch bark, glaucophane schist, cotton paper, ink, metal, redwood, hemp.

Lauri Twitchell: "As you turn the pages you wander through a drawn and collaged landscape with text of a calming mantra as each page contains different synonyms for 'wooded sanctuary.' On the other side you travel through synonyms for 'wander' collaged with old travel guide maps."
(SOLD)

Maps for Recreation
By Lauri Twitchell & Peter Suchecki
Berkeley, California: Lauri Twitchell, 2016. One-of-a-Kind.

4.5 x 3 x 3; 10 pages including 6 fold-out pages. Materials: handmade cotton paper, collage maps, thread, redwood. Coptic bound in redwood boards.

Laurie Twitchell: "A streak of lightening or a very fast path made by insects across a piece of redwood informed the text and images."

The pages are created from the maps contained in old Baedeker travel guides.

(SOLD)

UPS & DOWNS
By Lauri Twitchell & Peter Suchecki
Berkeley, California: redstartstudio, 2018. One-of-a-Kind.

5 x 4 x 2" accordion fold. Materials: wood, linen, cotton paper, ink. Collage. Woodcut prints. Bound in wooden boards. Cloth wrapper with cord tie. Dated and signed by the artists.

Lauri Twitchell: "Starting off making woodcut prints of insect trails found inside of downed trees I thought about landscape travel and scale. I collaged old travel guide maps and added images of panoramic views of mountain ranges and then a third page, a list of words that refer to peaks and valleys from Robert MacFarlane's book 'Landmarks.'"
(Out of Print)

What is a topographic map?
By Lauri Twitchell & Peter Suchecki
Berkeley, California: Lauri Twitchell & Peter Suchecki, 2017.
One-of-a-Kind.

6 x 4 x 2"closed, extends to 21 x 22"; double-sided one sheet fold out. Collaged maps. Materials: maps, paper, ink, jute, pencil. Handwritten text. Sewn binding with ceramic boards. Signed and dated by the artists. Laid in a cloth wrapper.

redstartstudio: "'What is a topographic map?' folds out into a two-sided map that contains a drawing of rocks collected from many yearly walks and hikes. The rock path is filled with a network of mapped locations we have been or places we will go. Hills and valleys are encountered and necessarily navigated throughout the journey."
(SOLD)