Paradise Drive Artist's Book by Lorna Stevens
“Paradise Drive, an entirely handmade book, combines my paintings and Rebecca Foust’s sonnets. The poems chronicle a quest for purpose in life, including missteps and recovery, and the paintings reflect the subject and tone of the poems. Each sonnet, a form that traditionally occupies fourteen lines, is paired with an original watercolor painting of fourteen strokes. There are fourteen digitally reproduced copies of Paradise Drive.”
9” x 8.5” x 0.5”
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Lorna Stevens (she/her) is a mixed media artist whose work centers on integrating material and technique to represent subject matter. Her books include Paradise Drive, a book combining sonnets and watercolors; The Scrapbook of Endangered and Extinct Birds, a compilation of memorabilia related to loss of species; The Broomstick Story, a tale of transformation from one thing to another; Huia, an altered book chronicling the demise of this extinct bird and The Humor Rag, a collection of humor submitted by artists and office workers. The Brooklyn Museum, the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the New York Public Library, the Numakunai Sculpture Garden in Iwate, Japan, and the SF MOMA Research Library have acquired her work. She received her MFA from Columbia University. and teaches at City College of San Francisco.
Instagram: @LornaStevens3
