Rebecca Goodale

Versailles à Paris avec Patty

Where To?

Rebecca Goodale and Arlene Morris

An historic clammers’ shack on Bunganuc Creek in Brunswick, Maine was the inspiration for this artists’ book which is a new collaboration with Brunswick artist Arlene Morris.

We began working together one day in mid-December 2023. We were at the shack during an incoming tide with heavy rain. While the storm raged around us, we worked and we talked about the climate crisis and the changes to the landscape in our lifetimes and our fear of loss, and more loss to come.

This book invites the reader to assemble the panels to create a specific place during this climate crisis. Each reader is free to choose the arrangement of the seven panels to suit their aesthetic preferences.

This book was made in Maine. 2024 Edition of 5 (2 available)

The pages and game board were silkscreened in Rebecca’s studio in Freeport, sewn at Arlene’s studio in Topsham, and hand colored in Brunswick at the clammers’ shack.

Boxes were fabricated by Scott Mullenberg at Mullenberg Designs in Portland.

Prospectus type design and letterpress printed by Scott Vile at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills.

Where to? ( 3 views above)

Back Then and Now,(below) 2023, edition of 5, with 2 with artists’ proofs

In 2023 Carrie Scanga and I collaborated on a new artists’ book inspired by Pettengill Farm, an historic saltwater farm located in Freeport, ME.

In 2022 I was invited to create work for an exhibition at the Maine Jewish Museum. This group of Artist’s books was inspired by the lives of the women in the Bible.