The tiny book of love, Heart Stones, is officially launched for Valentine's Day 2008. I exhibited a number of prints from the book--from quite large to lovely and small--at ArtHaus gallery in SOMA here in San Francisco and had a raucus book party to accompany the show. Great food, great friends, plenty of champagne and lots of good vibes.
On thinking about the book for a talk I gave last night, I realized that the power of the book resides in a bit of word play. Love Rocks, two words that can be construed three different ways to be: 1. about community (the sisterhood of folks that love rocks), 2. about love, that most human of emotions that really is the best, and 3. about these objects (not love beads but love rocks) that are talismans of all that binds us. These three meanings co-mingle all the way through the book or perhaps chase each other round and round like the four hearts on the half-title page adding resonance with each go-round.
Happy Valentine's Day!
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