From the Sleep of Waters

Some believe that Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, was born from the foam of the sea. And in this rendering of Aphrodite's birth by poet Richard Lewis and book-artist Susan Share, the dual themes of the sea and its life-giving abundance have come together in a unique book, based on their original theatrical collaboration at the American Museum of Natural History. Known for her highly original and evocative performances utilizing bookbinding, sewing, painting, collage, and sculpture, Susan Share has animated Lewis's poem, with riveting and inventive imagery emerging from the depths of a dreaming that is both ourselves and the natural world. From the Sleep of Waters is an invitation and entranceway, a drama unfolding, to the most ancient of elements-a tidal world that continues to be the birthplace of our Earthen life.