1–4. Handmade enclosure with an embossed belly band and stamped front panel / 5. Bookplate illustrating the cat’s interference with “Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges / 6. Interference with The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino / 7. Interference with No One Will Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again.: Letters to Mt. Wilson Observatory 1915–1935 / 8. Interference with Sleep, Death’s Brother by Jesse Ball / 9. Interference with “Cat ‘n’ Mouse” by Stephen Millhauser / 10. Interference with “Cloud, Castle, Lake” by Vladimir Nabokov

Catenary Books

Personal work, 2026

A portfolio of six narratively connected bookplates developed during the 2025 William H. Helfand Fellowship at the Grolier Club Library. The project imagines a metaphysical bookshop called Catenary Books and follows its resident cat as he wanders through the shelves after hours. The title refers to a catenary: the natural curve formed by a line suspended between two points. Here, it describes the connective space between books, linking them into a larger imagined collection. Screenprinted in collaboration with Russ Spitkovsky at G uttenberg Arts in an edition of 60. Available through Paper Crown Press. The recording of the public artist talk at The Grolier Club offers more information on the project.

American Illustration 45 Winner (chosen)