Wendy Withrow
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Wendy Withrow has a diploma in Bookbinding from the North Bennet Street School in Boston under the instruction of Mark Andersson and Jeff Altepeter. She continued her studies through internships at The Northeast Document Conservation Center, The Harvard Graduate School of Design, and with Jeff Altepeter. Prior to studying bookbinding she earned a BFA in Ceramics from Grand Valley State University. Wendy began Windy Weather Bindery in 2008, specializing in custom boxes, portfolios, and albums. She currently resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she spends her time working in the bindery when she's not spending time with her husband and daughter.

Website: windyweatherbindery.com

42nd Parallel, 2012

Stand in one spot and the horizon seems permanent. But take a road trip across the US and the horizon changes shape as you cross plains, mountains, and rivers. Travel over millennia and the line of the horizon radically shifts as glaciers melt, mountains move, seas rise and fall. We are born, we live, we die. Cities come and go. Everything is impermanent, but still what came before leaves its imprint. This book traces the line of the horizon along the 42nd Parallel, from California to Massachusetts, recording a fleeting moment in time.

Dimensions: 10.25 x 8 x 1.5 inches; 26 x 20.5 x 4 centimeters

Embossed and hand cut Tiziano paper, Cave Paper, sewn silk endbands.