by Lauren | May 7, 2013 | art, artist, book arts, books, letterpress, penland
Elegy for the Wild at Heart pokes fun at the dicey situations that love throws us into, and how we react to those bumps in the road. My research for this book consisted of asking friends and colleagues two questions: 1) “What’s the worst breakup line you... by Lauren | May 7, 2013 | art, books, letterpress
I Want a Crayfish’s Heart began as a simple idea: if my heart was broken, and I could choose from a catalog of replacements from different creatures, what would I choose? Which heart would be strong enough to withstand another crushing blow? The narrative... by Lauren | May 7, 2013 | art, book arts, books, letterpress
Specimens is a book in four parts. The narrative compares the speaker’s romantic relationship to the behaviors of poisonous and carnivorous insects. Or, more accurately, the speaker relays the ways in which her lover, an entomologist, compares her behavior to... 
by Lauren | Apr 4, 2012 | art, book, kickstarter, southwest, transformation
Today I’d like to say thank you to all of the folks who backed my kickstarter project that started back in the summer. The idea for this project had been cooking for a while–I guess its roots go back to the summer of 2009, when I taught for Duke TIP first... 
by Lauren | Nov 30, 2009 | art, iron, Sloss
This week, my adventure-seeking took me to historic Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, AL. Part of me has always wanted to try working in metal. I attribute this mostly to watching metal artists at Penland and partly to “Flashdance.” In both cases, there were...