This book was reflecting on the aftermath of the pandemic. Reflecting on how our experiences of the world shrank to the mundane tasks of daily life. Images of time (watch, clock, etc.) connect inkjet prints of random people with text printed on larger paper.
Emergence: 2025 Member's Exhibition
Bassis
Aileen Bassis
Aileen Bassis is an artist and poet. Her work on paper includes book arts, installation, printmaking, and photography. She received grants from the Queens Arts Fund a fellowship from New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Dodge Foundation Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, and three grants from the Puffin Foundation.
Mundane Moments : Yesterday Becomes Tomorrow
10 x 13"
Inkjet Prints, Sewn Butterfly binding, glued page connections. Time related images are printed on smaller paper.
2021
Glimpse
I'm also a poet and recently explored writing a group of nature-based poems in the "Haibun" form. I then adapted one of the poems to this book. The subject is about experiencing nature and the transitory nature of observing and being in the world. The images are from my cloud photos. Clouds continually change and we see glimpses of blue above. Full text: low gray clouds open/for/ a glimpse/of blue/and then move/closer/draping white/ from hillsides/ to treetops/a single/caw/slices the air./ no cry answers backs/ moments flowering.with uncompleted thoughts/become forgotten
12 x 9.5" closed
Inkjet prints, glued binding strips, accordion with two flaps that lift up with text.
2024