Kelda Martensen's Clamshell Box Analysis
Kelda Martensen has an MFA from Washington University in
St. Louis and serves as printmaking, book arts and drawing faculty at North Seattle College. While working as an Artist-in-
Residence at Pratt, Martensen created this limited edition artist book composed of ten individual broadsides enclosed in a hand-made clamshell box. Each image broadside combines screen print, monotype and xerox transfer. The pages in this artist book are unbound, and viewers are encouraged to hold each one as an object, and to turn it over in hand. Each page presents one word of a nine word original poem which communicates a desire to cope - even thrive - through uncertainty. Limited edition of
St. Louis and serves as printmaking, book arts and drawing faculty at North Seattle College. While working as an Artist-in-
Residence at Pratt, Martensen created this limited edition artist book composed of ten individual broadsides enclosed in a hand-made clamshell box. Each image broadside combines screen print, monotype and xerox transfer. The pages in this artist book are unbound, and viewers are encouraged to hold each one as an object, and to turn it over in hand. Each page presents one word of a nine word original poem which communicates a desire to cope - even thrive - through uncertainty. Limited edition of