Inked

Scrambled Book Components [Ink, Book Mark, Book Headband]
In Private Collection, NYC

Manipulated Encyclopedias, Binding, Ink

Anthologia: A collection of literary pieces
(From Greek): Flower Gathering. Anthos: flower + legein: to collect
In Collection of Jim & Kelley Pollison, CA

..I like to think of the books as having been engulfed by the inks of their inner texts…
In Collection of Gary Chase, IL

Original Inked Book, Manipulated Book Components.
In Private Collection

Luminous blacks- like a raven’s wing. Occasionally, a bright red cover punctuates the blackness...

Transformation of Ovid's Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
In Private Collection, NL

Crescere being built

“…These altered books and book sculptures by Jacqueline Rush Lee emphasize and multiply everything that I love about books, including multiplication and duplication in the bookbinding process. Her use of ink to alter the color and texture of the pages emphasizes the pages; her stacking of aged volumes emphasizes the different coloring and wear that happens to books; the loose threads and twilled pages emphasize the individual and delicate components that comprise books; and her selection of which pages and colors to reveal and how they are combined emphasizes the design and curating that goes into creating a book. The books within her sculptures are modular units, stacked and combined in forms that echo the way that books themselves are constructed, from a series of similar signatures. Even the way that her sculptures sit, resting heavily on their curled text blocks or precariously on altered spines, is so satisfyingly book-like. Overall, the distressed textures, beautiful fabrics and thread work, and stacking of paper make compelling sculptures…” Naomi Bardoff, San Francisco Center for the Book Arts