Dreamscape Dictionary

Last book in the Series of 5
Edition of 5
2002
Measures 5 x 5" closed 
Coptic Binding on wooden covers, handmade abaca paper with letterpress content, hand painted symbols and Polariod transfer images tipped in to chapter divisions

Serving as both codex and companion to the preceding series, this artist book functions as a visual dictionary for the symbolic language developed throughout the earlier volumes. Integrating cryptographic systems, Polaroid image transfers, and hand-painted elements on handmade paper, the work extends the vocabulary of the series into a new form of translation and record-keeping.

Where the earlier books charted personal narratives through the geography of Joshua Tree and Santa Barbara national parks, this volume turns inward—mapping the evolution of a private lexicon into a legible archive. The symbols, once embedded within layered compositions, are now isolated, annotated, and recontextualized to reveal the logic and intuition of their making.

By combining the immediacy of photographic transfer with the tactility of paint and paper, the book bridges documentation and invention. It offers a key to the visual language that has threaded through the series, inviting viewers to consider how systems of meaning are constructed, concealed, and ultimately shared through the material form of the book.