Portfolio · 1993
House of Many Rooms
Four etchings move from the remembered freedom of many rooms toward touch, obstruction, and an almost impenetrable field.
Date1993
MediumFour etchings and text printed in black on Arches Cover white paper with chine collé on handmade Indian paper
Image9 × 8 in.
Sheet16½ × 29½ in.
Edition25, plus two artist’s proofs
ProductionText handset by Felicia Rice and printed at Moving Parts Press; produced at Baskin Art Studios, University of California, Santa Cruz
The sequence begins with an open grid of rooms. Diagonal strokes then interrupt movement from room to room; the third sheet compresses the grid into a dense surface, and the final sheet closes into darkness. The titles and images together make enclosure accumulate across the four parts.
Here, the house is reduced to a changing structure of cells, barriers, touch, and loss. As the sequence darkens, remembered architecture becomes psychological space: rooms once crossed freely are gradually transformed into boundaries.
Archive sequence
Individual sheets
The portfolio is shown in its established order. Each titled sheet is reproduced in full so that its image, inscriptions, paper edge, and place within the four-part sequence remain visible.
