Scope and Contents This book uses a sufi text with repetitive images of rubberstamped hands. Rachael Romero left Australia as a teen, eventually choosing to live and work in NY. Since the 1970's Romero has worked with printmaking, public art, mass installation, performance, film, video, painting and drawing. Many of her posters are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY, MOMA, NY; The Oakland Museum, among others. Artists books by Rachael Romero (Rabyaashki is Romero's sufi name) are hand-made, with found and fine papers and are mostly unique (some few are in small but not identical editions) and were made in the 1980's. While studying Sufi calligraphic texts in the late 80's and early 1990's, Romero made a number of books as a way to assimilate the material. Romero also made books using materials from her creative process and in response to nature. She has made a handful of books incorporating students' art, to give people a "voice"...

Scope and Contents This book uses a sufi text with repetitive images of rubberstamped hands. Rachael Romero left Australia as a teen, eventually choosing to live and work in NY. Since the 1970's Romero has worked with printmaking, public art, mass installation, performance, film, video, painting and drawing. Many of her posters are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY, MOMA, NY; The Oakland Museum, among others. Artists books by Rachael Romero (Rabyaashki is Romero's sufi name) are hand-made, with found and fine papers and are mostly unique (some few are in small but not identical editions) and were made in the 1980's. While studying Sufi calligraphic texts in the late 80's and early 1990's, Romero made a number of books as a way to assimilate the material. Romero also made books using materials from her creative process and in response to nature. She has made a handful of books incorporating students' art, to give people a "voice"...