Field Notes Companion
an artist book by Lou Cabeen with text by Ann Batchelor Hursey.
Field Notes Companion is an accordion book which expands to reveal a 12 foot long relief print of the waterways traversed by Lewis and Clark, as they came to the peoples and paces of the Pacific Northwest.
It was designed to accompany Ann’s chap book Field Notes to Maya Lin’s Confluence Project Landscapes. Ann and I have a long history of collaboration and this is the fruit of our most recent and ambitious project.
In 2019 I joined Ann on her return pilgrimage to the Maya Lin Landscapes along the Columbia and Snake rivers. Field Notes Companion reflects my response to these expansive waterways and the whispered histories of their original inhabitants.
Relief prints of the river move over patterns of Indigenous texts. Ann’s haiku are letterpress printed on translucent paper pamphlet-stitched into the accordion structure and placed approximately where the Maya Lin Landscapes rest along the rivers.
Field Notes Companion is offered together with Field Notes to Maya Lin’s Confluence Project Landscapes in a limited edition.
Ann Batchelor Hursey's chapbook is available separately here.