HORIZON

Heather Bain
Susan Bonthron
Amy Borezo
Patty Bruce
Carolee Campbell
Rebecca Chamlee
Susan Collard
Coleen Curry
Cathy DeForest
Anna Embree
Ethan Ensign
Mark Esser
Don Etherington
Samuel Feinstein
Erin Fletcher
Madelyn Garrett
Ken Gilbert
Karen Hanmer
Monica Holtsclaw
Deborah Howe
Peggy Johnston
Jamie Kamph
Ellen Knudson
Rebecca Koch
Jill Krase
Alison Kuller
Monique Lallier
Sammy Lee
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Carolyn Leigh
Sue Huggins Leopard
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Suzanne Moore
Hanne Niederhausen
Jeff Nilan
Claire Owen
Jan Owen
Graham Patten
Jana Pullman
Veda and Meda Rives
Suzanne Sawyer
Susan Share
CB Sherlock
Stanley Sherman
Priscilla Spitler
Emily Tipps
Jonathan Tremblay
Claire VanVliet
Tom Virgin
Robert Walp
Thomas Parker Williams
Wendy Withrow
Rutherford Witthus

Samuel Feinstein
Orland Park, Illinois

Samuel Feinstein is a bookbinder and aspiring finisher, focusing on fine bindings. He will be graduating from the North Bennet Street School bookbinding program in June 2012, and is also studying at the American Academy of Bookbinding.

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Samuel Feinstein

Dance of Death, Engravings by Hans Holbein, 2012

The “horizon” I chose to explore was death, the final journey of our mortality. Hans Holbein's engravings depict Death personified, dancing around humans from every vocation from emperor to child, often with an hourglass. Death will eventually take all of us away, frequently with no regard to timing, family, love, ambitions, etc. Full black goatskin binding sewn on flattened cords with black doublures and sewn in leather hinges and flyleaves; edges gilt, gauffered, and painted; double core headbands; sham bands on spine; boards built up incorporating an onyx stone set into a silver bezel (by jeweler Sara Pancoast); multi-colored goatskin onlays, gold tooling, and surface gilding with 21K "moon gold"--which has enough of a silver content to lightly tarnish, being subject to its own horizon.

Dimensions: 6.25 x 3.5 x .75 inches, 16 x 9 x 2 centimeters

Leather, silk, paper, silver, onyx, gold.