workbook

2022
Maria Baker and Luke Degnan
Artists' book (44 pages)

A pile of cardstock timecards became our inspiration for several projects during the residency. They illustrated the break we experienced from our more regimented work-lives (in the sense of job) and posed questions about how we experience the connection between work and nature. What are symbols of and feelings about our work and how are they interrupted and redefined by our being at the Swimming Hole? What did we not know we were missing? What were the symbols of work and how did their meaning change when inserted into a lush landscape?

Workbook became a ringbound deck of business card-sized pages that traces a path away from the narrow focus of work. As we assembled the book, it began to map the story of an escape. In the process, we re/learned to look up and out.

Every member of the group contributed individual cards/pages which made the physicality of the book more expansive. [pdf]