For instance, last summer I drove across country to New Mexico. In Missouri, there were road signs that had a single letter, like "J." It was confusing and mysterious to me- roads usually have names or numbers. There was beauty in the simplicity of the graphic and it stayed in my mind. By contrast, the work I’ve done with text has a jumbled, chaotic quality that mimics the barrage of words and image we are faced with each day. I use books or book pages so that the printed text acts as matrix for my intervention. The sources for the books vary- used bookstores, friends, dollar bins. They have outlasted their use as story and information conveyers- and are reborn as objects to be admired and scrutinized.



Donna Ruff's work appeared in the following exhibition(s) organized by The Center for Book Arts

Threads: Interweaving Textu[r]al Meaning
 Organized by: Lois Morrison, Artist and Independent Curator; and Alexander Campos, Executive Director of The Center for Book Arts.

The Fable
(2004) Laser prints, kozo paper, tea, thread, flax