Artwork > Register Series

Directory & Scrolls - porcelain with wood display
Porcelain, wood
60"W x 21"D x 56"H
Trinity & The Word - mixed media installation by Janet Williams
Mixed media - porcelain, wood, pulped book, wax
7' x 7' x 4' approx.
Trinity & The Word - mixed media installation by Janet Williams
Mixed media
7' x 7' x 4' approx.
Porcelain book by Janet Williams
Porcelain, wood
24" w x 17.5"d x 6"h
Trinity - Mixed media installation by Janet Williams
Pulped book, beeswax, wood
20"W x 13"D x 6"H each book
Trinity - 1 book
Pulped book, beeswax, wood
20"h x 24"w x 10"d
Tickets & Reels: porcelain, wood
Porcelain, wood
16"h x 55"w x 6"d
Book related artwork - porcelain, wood
Porcelain, wood
20"h x 192"w x 12"d
Book related artwork - porcelain, wood
Porcelain, wood
15'W x 1'D x 2'H
Archive Box I - mixed media, type cabinet drawer display
Mixed media
21.5"h x 32"w x 3"d
Register Series: Archive Box II
Mixed media
21.5"h x 32"w x 3"d
Condensed - Mixed media installation - porcelain with wood display
Porcelain, wood
32"h x 66"w x 6"d
Bookworks - Mixed media installation by Janet Williams
Porcelain, wood
Bookworks - Mixed media installation by Janet Williams
Porcelain, wood
Bookworks - Mixed media installation by Janet Williams
Porcelain, wood
Bookworks - Mixed media installation by Janet Williams
Porcelain, wood
Bookworks - Mixed media installation by Janet Williams
Porcelain, wood
Bookworks - Mixed media installation by Janet Williams
Porcelain, wood
Fossil book cabinet
Mixed media
68"h x 37"w x 22"d
Fossil book cabinet
Mixed media
68"h x 37"w x 22"d
Porcelain telephone directory by Janet Williams
Porcelain
Porcelain telephone directory by Janet Williams
Porcelain

Installation: Bookworks, Rowe Gallery, UNC-Charlotte, NC, USA. 2010
Photo credit: Crista Cammaroto

The Register Series continues a long investigation into themes of memory, loss and transformation explored through matter (porcelain and books in this series), using fire as an agent of change. A set of directories, the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (a multi-volume catalogue of the manufacturer’s material world), have been reconstituted, fossilized and transformed into new states through different experimental processes. Books, rapidly being superseded by developing digital technologies, are here relegated to the status of matter. Working through the 13 volumes of the set, I am dealing with the materiality of books, but also making reference to: their power as objects, sacred and secular; ancient texts; obsolete paper-based office practices and as a memorial or elegy to the non-virtual world.