Constance Woo
Artist's Statement
With a background in literature, I feel the presence of text in artists' books should contribute to the
substance of a book as significantly as the visual elements. I'm interested in other pursuits that relate
materially and formally to the book: handmade paper, three-dimensional receptacles, linear and
sequentially constructed vehicles where the material is the text. Ergo, baskets, paper pages with elements
that form their own comment embedded during the papermaking process, recycled printed papers with
found texts and even paper jewelry that express the relation between art and nature. The material for
paper and baskets derive from the same plant sources; one is more processed, the other in a raw form.
Then, as a further permutation, I've been involved in the decorative arts using time-honored materials.
Constance Woo
November, 2003