My friend Kate and I collaborated on an art correspondence project throughout 2019. One of us would create a work and mail it to the other. The recipient would then create and mail a responding work in return. Kate thought of “Duodecim” to title our project (latin for twelve) to signify the 12 pairs of artworks (expression & response) for the year. That project can be viewed here.

Upon the project’s completion, I designed and hand-bound a book to capture our email correspondence during the project; providing a space to go back to thoughts and words without scrolling through lists of emails and squinting at a digital screen.

It felt significant to have a physical document of what transpired between the artworks themselves. I titled this book “The Lines Between.” It speaks of the strands of connection in friendship that bundle-up and fortify the friendship over time. And of the multitude of lines written between us during this project. These lines of thought and expression are what give context and fuller meaning to our monthly, culminating, nodes of artwork. These nodes rise above the surface... visible... the lines silently below surface, submerged, unseen, holding root.

Kate often uses gold leaf in her work. Through our collaboration a theme of the golden thread emerged. Thus a golden thread was used to bind these pages.

I printed, bound, and crafted two copies of Duodecim: The Lines Between which include the box, book, and image pamphlet. One resides with Kate in Yorkshire. The other, here, in Honolulu.