In big cities, many people live in one-room apartments. 2020’s book, Five Rooms lets you look inside five of them.
Because our world is much too complicated for only one God to be in charge, China's 2019 book offers six other Gods you can turn to for help with big and little things: love affairs, bad weather, computer malfunctions, and more!
Strange Times, China’s first truly portable book, compact enough to carry with you, describes what is happening in the world right now, in all its awfulness. Much better than reading about it in the NY Times…
In The Wax Boy, printed by Barbara Henry of Harismus Press in an edition of 50, a small boy finds a dragon in his right shoe. This book reminds the reader of how inexorably strange and perilous childhood can be. Only $50 for a signed copy.
The young daughter of the Fairy Queen is abducted by a belligerent neighboring state to make the Fairies fight them to get her back, and what happens after that.Most people cheer the daring deed, but the Chief Necromancer’s omens predict disaster.Meanwhile the Fairies hatch a plan to bring the stolen child home. Part One.
In the summer of 2016 China made an accordion-style book from five identical small tapestry copies of Bellini’s Piéta. She called the book Ask Mary!, because it’s her story: Jesus doesn’t say a word.
Chronic illnesses always attract promises of cures. They’re never cheap and they rarely work! Book as Infomercial.
A book about Hell, based on various hells China has directly or indirectly known, on earth and beyond. Be warned: this book is not picturesque, it is hellish.
Brief Lives has five small stories of contemporary life, light and dark, each with a full-page illustration. Instead of being sewn into its bindings, it is belted.
A ten-page book describing a powerful and mysterious process, how it operates and what it makes. In addition a drawing, "About The Book", made from the same materials is meant to be shown with the book.
Using collaged imagery and a narative she wrote herself, China transformed "Lobbyists," a photo essay by Neil Selkirk, into a forty-page graphic novel.
Written in doggerel instead of free verse, with substantial visual imagery joined to a text made up of fancy type appropriated from fabric, variously ornamented and altered, in combination with invented letters.
Text and illustrations. An account of memory of and longing for a particular place. Dark (white text on black fabric, with a black cover) because of the depth of memory and the pain of longing.
Text only. A description of a beating heart, dark (white text on black fabric, with a black cover) because it’s literally an inside story......
Imagery only — no text — a kind of illustrated manuscript about horses, history, and the idea of horses.
Imagery only — no text — an illustrated manuscript about contemporary characters.
China’s first sewn book, imagery only, her take on the movies...