Artist Book series
Artist Books Handmade narratives of life, women’s stories, and daily memories by Jaclyn Bae Artist Book I — Seasons of Human Life Collaged seasons and shifting silhouettes of a life. Seasons of Human Life explores how a single life moves through changing emotional and physical seasons. Pages are built from collaged magazine papers in shifting colors and textures, suggesting spring, summer, autumn, and winter. On the facing pages, silhouettes of human figures echo these transitions — growing, bending, pausing, and moving forward again. The book reads like a quiet visual diary: the outer seasons of nature and the inner seasons of the heart layered together, one spread at a time. The use of collaged magazine paper is intentional, transforming discarded commercial images—remnants of popular culture and fleeting desires—into a sustained, personal narrative. The layering of textures and colors ...