Hand-bound books and featured First Matter Press titles at Gagallery’s “Galeria Libris”

Curator Stashia Cabral invited me to show some of my early hand-bound book works and a featured selection of First Matter Press art and hybrid books in the Galeria Lebris show, which took place March 6 – 27, 2026 at Gagallery PDX (2035 SE Belmont Street).

The installation included books, illustrations, zines, typography, prints and book-related artworks by: First Matter Press, ash good, Wendy Nicholas, Adam Strong, Ellen Robinette, Amanda Danford, Stashia Cabral, Jenny Wilde, Miriam Garcia, James Dipadua, Mychelle Moritz, Élan Chardin, Alyson Provax, Jay Stoneking, ocean, Sophia Wroblewski, Ash Sanders, Justine Avera, Adelaide Blair, Alyson Bowen, Kelli Horan, and ahuva zaslavsky.

Spiraling Down the Rabbit Hole—a circularly bound book of recursive geometric patterns that tracks the sensation of Alice tumbling downward. The binding refuses a clear beginning or end, mirroring descent, disorientation, and perpetual motion. Handled in the round, the book gradually destabilizes the reader’s sense of orientation, asking them to surrender to perpetual motion.

and: used to connect—an unconventional book hand-bound on four axes and assembled as a sculptural structure without linearity. The reader is invited to untangle and re-weave questions of intertextuality and branding through a graphic exploration of three source texts. There is no fixed path through the work; meaning emerges through partial views, interruptions, and the effort of navigation.

waiting for the bus—an accordion-fold book that offers a durational typographic portrait of a bus stop. Its structure allows the reader to experience waiting either page by page or fully expanded as a long, continuous timeline. The reader controls the tempo of engagement, oscillating between incremental reading and an at-once view of time passing.