| Title | The Crab |
| Artist / Creator | Bettina Pauly |
| Press Name | bpbookartandletterpress |
| Artist's Nationality | United States |
| Place of Publication | San Francisco, CA |
| Publication Date | 2023 |
| Author of Text | Bill Denham |
| Process / Technique | Letterpress printed text, hand carved linoleum block, sculpted paper clay nose |
| Number of Images | 1 |
| Structure / Binding | Kumi Korf's 'How to Bind Five Eggs' structure |
| Medium / Materials | Book cloth, Nepalese Lokta paper, cotton based paper from Morgan Conservatory, foam board, paper clay |
| Number of Pages | One spread |
| Dimensions (WxHxD) | 10.125 x 14.125 x 1.5 inches closed. |
| Edition Size | Limited Edition of 2 |
| Signed & Numbered | Folded paper portfolio |
Bill Denham’s dream, 2009
Bettina Pauly artist book, 2023
The call for entry came from 23 Sandy. The theme was ‘Dreams’.
My friend and poet Bill Denham contacted me to ask if I would be interested in a collaboration, using one of his dreams he had written down over the years.
I selected ‘The Crab’ and after different mock-ups, that did not look like the finished piece at all, I remembered Kumi Korf’s structure ‘How to Bind Five Eggs’.
The structure allowed me to incorporate the sculpted nose as well as the poem and the pop-up crab.
Bettina Pauly artist book, 2023
The call for entry came from 23 Sandy. The theme was ‘Dreams’.
My friend and poet Bill Denham contacted me to ask if I would be interested in a collaboration, using one of his dreams he had written down over the years.
I selected ‘The Crab’ and after different mock-ups, that did not look like the finished piece at all, I remembered Kumi Korf’s structure ‘How to Bind Five Eggs’.
The structure allowed me to incorporate the sculpted nose as well as the poem and the pop-up crab.
Artist Bio
Bettina Pauly studied at the Academy of Art University San Francisco in the Book Arts and Letterpress program. In addition she took classes at the San Francisco Center for the Book.Bettina is living in San Francisco as a book artist and working as a letterpress printer at Painted Tongue Studios, Oakland, California.
She has been teaching book arts and letterpress classes at the SF Center for the Book, Bainbridge Island Art Center, Jaffe Art Center, and San Diego Book Arts.
She loves books and boxes both as physical objects and as containers of meaning. She is interested in a variety of folded, sewn and woven structures in which she can incorporate her printing.