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Bonus // Book Artist of the Month: Jody Alexander

August 26, 2013 by Erin Fletcher

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The Odd Volumes of Ruby B. is a 2010 installation from Jody Alexander exhibited at Mark Henderson and Anne Sconberg’s Art Party. This room installation is another great example of how Jody incorporates her book work into larger scale pieces.

Biography of Ruby B.
Ruby B. spent the majority of her life living in a single room in a residency hotel. During the day she worked as a secretary, typically took the long way home finding treasures along the way, and spent her evenings using other’s words, pictures and objects to tell her stories.

She was an armchair philosopher as she commented on life, love, laughter and loss in her copious volumes – for Ruby had removed herself from the kind of life that produced the aforementioned experiences. She left her husband and small children when she found herself in a life that she was simply incapable of living. Ruby made a choice and then she had to live with it, or perhaps it wasn’t a choice at all but something she had to do.

Ruby has labeled each volume with an odd number hence the title attributed to her life’s work that was only discovered upon her death.

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  1. Jakki Garlans says:

    I have taken one or two short online courses with Jody. I loved her method of teaching and the presence she has. I was so happy to stumble across this blog and find so many examples of her work. She makes books that speak to the essence of life. Thank you for sharing these wonderful works of art.

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