{"id":6803,"date":"2013-08-26T01:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=6803"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:20:52","slug":"book-artist-of-the-month-jody-alexander-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/book-artist-of-the-month-jody-alexander-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonus \/\/ Book Artist of the Month: Jody Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rubyb1-jodyalexander\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Odd Volumes of Ruby B<\/em>.<\/a> is a 2010 installation from Jody Alexander<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Biography of Ruby B.<\/strong>
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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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