| Title | Winter Woodswalk |
| Artist / Creator | Judith ODell |
| Artist's Nationality | United States |
| Place of Publication | Laporte PA |
| Publication Date | 2022 |
| Author of Text | Judy O'Dell and quotes from Diana Beresford-Kroeger and Mary Oliver. |
| Process / Technique | Digital printing for photos and text |
| Number of Images | 22 |
| Structure / Binding | Case bound, printed bookcloth cover |
| Paper Stock | Red RIver Polar Matt |
| Number of Pages | 30 + small accordion book inserted - 7 pages |
| Dimensions (WxHxD) | 5.875 x 7 x 1 inches |
| Edition Size | Limited edition of 2 |
| Signed & Numbered | Signed and numbered edition |
Winter Woodswalk by Judith ODell
I grew up summers in a lake community in the Pennsylvania mountains where I live now. My father had us hiking in the woods at an early age, and my daily ritual is to walk in the woods. My home is surrounded by forests that were once stripped bare for lumber and hemlock bark for tanning hides. Old logging roads crisscross the forest. One cold January day, I resurrected my plastic Holga camera, loaded it with film, and began carrying it on my walks. It was an exercise in noticing my surroundings. I read books about trees and wrote short essays about my observations. I made a series of tree portraits, solo trees in fields and along roadsides. To make the book, I scanned the negatives and digitally printed the pages, adding text, a short essay, a Turkish fold map, and a small accordion book insert of the tree portraits to the book. The book is case-bound, and the cover title is letterpress.
Artist Bio
Judy O’Dell is a visual artist and writer who has been photographing since she was eight years old. In 2020 she took her first photography workshop at Maine Media Workshops and she has played with analog black and white photography, alternative processes, large format, pinhole, plastic, digital and iPhone cameras and handmade books. She earned her MFA from Maine Media College in 2020. Her thesis project was Goose River Field Notes, a book of photographs and essays centered on the river that runs through her backyard, which was juried into the 2020 Davis Orton Gallery Photobook Show and exhibited online at the Griffin Museum. In 2023 she published Curley Visits Lake Mokoma, a book of photographs and nature writing to benefit a local Conservancy. In 2024 she published 30 Square Miles, a Zine to assist Citizens Against Residential Mining in Union, Maine. Her interests span geology, hydrology, physics, geomorphology, archeology, botany, weather, wildlife, history, and historic photographs and postcards. She explores and photographs from her homes in Rockport, Maine and the Pennsylvania mountains, using whatever camera suits her mood. Her essays capture the facts, observations, and memories triggered by being in these places. Her photographs are images of time, both past and present. She has exhibited work at The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Penn Tech College Gallery, Michael Good Gallery, Camden Maine Library, Pen Bay Medical Center, Praxis Gallery, Davis Orton Gallery, Griffin Museum, Maine Photography Show, Lenscratch, Onslow County, NC Arts Council, Montpelier Museum, Thomaston, ME, Prairie Village Museum, Rugby, ND, and Chestertown, MD Arts League. She has published several essays in Sageing and in the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 editions of Goose River Anthology.