Susan Joy Share

Trap Door

Trap Door is an eight-page accordion fold book with pages made from dark blue book cloth. The end panels are made of a pliable waxy plastic embedded with acrylic painted paper and cheesecloth. The edges are decorated with coiled dark blue and white threads. One side of each panel consists of brightly colored papers in iridescent blue, turquoise and green hues. Each panel of the other side of the accordion fold contains seven 1.5-inch square black and dark gray images resembling over-exposed film. The book is housed in a cloth-covered box with a magnetic hinge.

Susan Joy Share is an artist, performer and book conservator living in Alaska. She was the Artist for the Governor’s Awards for the Arts in 2003. She has received numerous grants, including ones from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation.

Press: Constructed by the Artist
Date: 2005
Number and Edition: 1 of 1
Size: 10.5” x 1.875”