India and Bill Braine offer a lavishly illustrated exhibition guide to accompany their joint exhibition, Pictures About Words, at 2 Alices Coffee Lounge in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY. The guide features an extended artists’ statement and full illustrations of every work in the collection—not to be seen together again!
Most of these works were created with their co-exhibition in mind. They make, therefore, at least in our eyes, a single assemblage, with themes that nestle against one another like sedimentary layers in a stream bed or air currents in an atmosphere or colors in a paint sample case. This book preserves their graphic essence, along with our textual stab at accounting for our thoughts while making them. It is perhaps to be considered the 24th work in the group of 23, and available to all in a way the individual pieces are not.