This circular book form contains text from the book Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas. The full quote reads:

“When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood”.

Fragments of text is screen-printed onto kozo paper and dipped in beeswax, creating a transparent sheet. Underneath each text layer of transparent kozo rests a reapeated paper-lithography image of two girls dancing by water. This image is printed onto pigmented handmade recycled paper. As the pages are turned, the paper tone gets increasingly darker while the printed image gets lighter; Eventually the image disappears into the sheet of paper.

Die cut Kozo, handmade recycled paper, beeswax and grommet.