Close to Home: A Visual Essay
2023
52 pages, 5.5” x 8.5”
Self-published
This slow, meandering visual narrative was inspired by a trip through Western Massachusetts to Upstate New York with my partner. Each page was painted with gouache in a sketchbook, and lettered by hand with pen and ink.
Purchase this book in my Etsy shop. There are also copies in the Boston Public Library’s zine collection.
Read the first 14 pages below, and check out some process photos from my sketchbook.
Take a look at some of the original sketchbook pages and spreads from the printed book below.
I painted this scene at the campsite en plein air.
Spread from the book in print
Back cover of the book in print
