With Christiana Wustinger (Austria) and Martin Kubaczek (Japan)

First in a series of paper, Gobelin weaving and poetry collaborative artist books, published in 1994. These books were dialogues between three different media, each with its unique perspective on the written word.

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The box opens to reveal Wustinger's leporello consisting of woven pages. Each page has anemic writing covering its surface in grays with a central & colorful organic form. Departing from Gobelin traditions, the backs of the weavings are not covered, revealing the wonderful maze of knots and threads, which form a dialog with the images woven. Below this book, one finds my five-part book that responded to Wustinger’s tapestry: each of the five covers reveals words from a haiku in German by Martin Kubaczek, watermarked & pulp-painted into the accordion paper.

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The haiku reads:

Du strickst in Wolle
Ich in wörten; dein Handschuh
Gegen mein Gedicht.

You knit (together) in wool
I in words; your gloves.
Against my poetry.