Shown In
LIST Art Center - Love:Love
Tiny Exhibit - Paper or Bioplastic
Leung Family Gallery - Black Art’s Showcase 2019 - Community of Love
North House Art Show - Paper or Bioplastic
Leung Family Gallery - Black Art’s Showcase 2022 -Multiplicity, not Monolith: Locating the Self Through Art
Small Format - ALL OF MY HEARTS
V. Amari
M. Tonnette
May 2019
Poetry, Handmade Paper
(Cotton, Local: Knotweed, Mullen, Yucca, & Seaweed)
Mixed Media
Special Thanks:
Mark Séjourné
Stella Binion
Jack Nelson
Aliya Chambless
Saccharine
saccharine - excessively sweet or sentimental
This mini anthology is comprised of selections from M. Tonnette’s poems, collected and printed onto paper that I made by hand from local mullen with yucca (for the central pages, with the backsides overlayed into the background behind the scans to show the imbedding), cotton pulp and knotweed (for the title page that I also hand pressed the title into), and seaweed (the final page). I lasercut leather and attached clasps to form sheaths to hold the pages. In this process, I have been able to understand this artist and her longstanding poetic practice more concisely, as well as identify the natural overlaps in the themes present in our work. This exists as a numbered edition, with 4 copies of this book existing. One staying with me, another at home, the third with my professor that taught me the art of printmaking/bookmaking, and the last one residing
in the Special Collections of the John Hay Library.
“I Want To Fall In Love”
“Absolutely Necessary”
“A Restoration”
“Peace & Blessings”
©️M. Tonnette 1997-2012
M. Tonnette
May 2019
Poetry, Handmade Paper
(Cotton, Local: Knotweed, Mullen, Yucca, & Seaweed)
Mixed Media
Special Thanks:
Mark Séjourné
Stella Binion
Jack Nelson
Aliya Chambless
Saccharine
saccharine - excessively sweet or sentimental
This mini anthology is comprised of selections from M. Tonnette’s poems, collected and printed onto paper that I made by hand from local mullen with yucca (for the central pages, with the backsides overlayed into the background behind the scans to show the imbedding), cotton pulp and knotweed (for the title page that I also hand pressed the title into), and seaweed (the final page). I lasercut leather and attached clasps to form sheaths to hold the pages. In this process, I have been able to understand this artist and her longstanding poetic practice more concisely, as well as identify the natural overlaps in the themes present in our work. This exists as a numbered edition, with 4 copies of this book existing. One staying with me, another at home, the third with my professor that taught me the art of printmaking/bookmaking, and the last one residing
in the Special Collections of the John Hay Library.
“I Want To Fall In Love”
“Absolutely Necessary”
“A Restoration”
“Peace & Blessings”
©️M. Tonnette 1997-2012