Anne Greenwood Rioseco
Portland, OR
www.Annegreenwood.net

Shapes of Land
2024
Textile
9”x 13”x 1.5” (closed), 9”x 39” (open)

Artist Statement

Shapes of Land was conceived of in 2018 while retracing my footsteps from where I was born in North Dakota, to travels with my husband to his home in Argentina, our time in-between in Central America and Mexico, to where we live in Oregon, as I embarked on a journey to the land of my Northern ancestry; all the time thinking about the land and how it connects us. The book contains a series of landforms: lake, plains, isthmus, plateau, meander, arch, hill and these images reside alongside the bilingual prose by Mauricio Rioseco Milano and together, we offer these imaginative portals for traveling in space and time.

100% cotton Crinoline comprises the body of this one-of-a-kind book. The colored pages and appliqued images are hand-dyed in: indigo, Osage, madder, catechu, logwood, and cochineal with letterpress printed patterns. All the images and hand-embroidered text are stitched with hand-dyed silk and wool threads: the prose is machine-stitched with cotton thread.