CURRENT SHOW
e bond
100 Questions Worth Asking
Sept 17th- Nov 29th 2021
Artist’s Statement
“Looking back, the work that became the questions project (made in 2020) was
created more out of necessity than probably any other work I’ve created.”
“It kept me sane in the usual ways that making tends to, but the added bonus of
thinking mostly in questions gave me the much needed feeling of ‘an open door’
even when there were none to be found. The questions gave the illusion on some
days, and the harsh reminder on most others, that there is still a choice. The choice
might not be how I envisioned or in a language I could comprehend, but asking
questions to problems where I have absolutely no answers is what I like to think of
as a deliberate practice in imagining. If I can’t dream up what to ask, I certainly have
no chance at an answer. The questions are the beginning, the middle and the end. The
questions serve as openings + invitations to practice my ability to summon & interact with the
unknown; to choose again, choose differently. To understand when there is no
choice & question within those constraints. To invent a new set of variables, to
begin again, & again & again…”
-e bond
e bond is an artist + writer + bookbinder + educator & designer. Currently, she
makes digital spaces by day, handmade books by night, hangs out with trees on
weekends and writes something close to poems in the spaces between. Under the
studio name roughdrAftbooks, created in 2003, she makes one-of-a-kind artists
books, printed pieces and abstract drawings that merge and blur the boundaries of
art, craft, design and poetry.
e holds a BFA in graphic design and art history for Moore College of Art & Design and
an MFA in Creative Writing and Book Art from Mills College.
She has been a visiting artist and lecturer and taught workshops for future artists in
places as close as Oakland and Philadelphia and as far as Hoi An, Vietnam. Her
artwork has been exhibited at B Square Gallery, The Kimmel Center and in
conjunction with the Philadelphia & San Francisco Centers for the Book.
https://ebondwork.com
https://www.instagram.com/eisroughdraft
100 Questions Worth Asking
Sept 17th- Nov 29th 2021
Artist’s Statement
“Looking back, the work that became the questions project (made in 2020) was
created more out of necessity than probably any other work I’ve created.”
“It kept me sane in the usual ways that making tends to, but the added bonus of
thinking mostly in questions gave me the much needed feeling of ‘an open door’
even when there were none to be found. The questions gave the illusion on some
days, and the harsh reminder on most others, that there is still a choice. The choice
might not be how I envisioned or in a language I could comprehend, but asking
questions to problems where I have absolutely no answers is what I like to think of
as a deliberate practice in imagining. If I can’t dream up what to ask, I certainly have
no chance at an answer. The questions are the beginning, the middle and the end. The
questions serve as openings + invitations to practice my ability to summon & interact with the
unknown; to choose again, choose differently. To understand when there is no
choice & question within those constraints. To invent a new set of variables, to
begin again, & again & again…”
-e bond
e bond is an artist + writer + bookbinder + educator & designer. Currently, she
makes digital spaces by day, handmade books by night, hangs out with trees on
weekends and writes something close to poems in the spaces between. Under the
studio name roughdrAftbooks, created in 2003, she makes one-of-a-kind artists
books, printed pieces and abstract drawings that merge and blur the boundaries of
art, craft, design and poetry.
e holds a BFA in graphic design and art history for Moore College of Art & Design and
an MFA in Creative Writing and Book Art from Mills College.
She has been a visiting artist and lecturer and taught workshops for future artists in
places as close as Oakland and Philadelphia and as far as Hoi An, Vietnam. Her
artwork has been exhibited at B Square Gallery, The Kimmel Center and in
conjunction with the Philadelphia & San Francisco Centers for the Book.
https://ebondwork.com
https://www.instagram.com/eisroughdraft