A Return to Nature

Authors

Sadie Levine, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Publication Date

12-1-2023

Description

GRAND PURCHASE PRIZE | $500 Purchase prize winners receive a cash reward and the books are added to the Fleet Library at RISD Special Collections' Artists' Book collection. Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

Keywords

artists' books, Baker & Whitehill, Grand Purchase Prize, award

Disciplines

Book and Paper

Student Status

Graduate student

Year of Graduation

2025

Major

Illustration

Faculty / Course

Andrea Dezo, Moveable Artist's books

Materials + Techniques

Materials: coloured cardstock, copic markers, gel pens, mircon pens. Methods: These tunnel books are hand-drawn and hand-cut.

Student Narrative

This series of tunnel books explores death and the process of decomposition. I believe human's disconnect from nature contributes to anxiety surrounding death, and using these tunnel books, I illustrate decomposition as a return to nature.

Photo Credit

Miles Tong 2025 FAV

Recommended Citation

Levine, Sadie; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "A Return to Nature" (2023). 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024. 28.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/bookcontest10th2024/28