Braided Tapes and The Shopping B(ag)ook are traveling back to Indiana. This time, they are going to Ball State University. They will be shown alongside with work from other artists: painting, drawing, mixed media, printmaking, photography, ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, and video.



Reclaim, Reuse, Renew
August 25 - September 26, 2009
Atrium Gallery, Art and Journalism Building
Ball State University
2000 W. University Ave, Muncie, IN 47306
http://www.bsu.edu/art/atrium

Visit Studio CaiLun for more pictures of Braided Tapes and The Shopping B(ag)ook.

A year ago, I completed the book that I have spent the entire month of May working on. It uses entirely paper bags that I have saved, from shopping, of course. (But I definitely wasn't shopping during the entire month to collect bags!) There was a tremendous amount of paper to work from, but I lost count on the number of bags that I have disassembled. I guess it would be around 30.

The book was conceived and created as a respose to Jeannine Stein's recently published Re-Bound: Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials, in which I was one of the featured artists. Before the book was published, it has traveled to Purdue University in Indiana and Foundry Art Centre in Missouri.