Artist Statements

What I love to create is consistently interested in investigating relationality. Whether the final forms are words, monotypes, book forms, or any combination, my work maps the connections between disparate thoughts, shapes, and spaces. While questioning each element separately to uncover new connections, I am discovering not only what is made when two or more entities share a physical space, but also the third space that emerges from this sharing. As someone who loves to work with words and images, my visual interests are closely related to my interests in language structure and meaning. Again, this third space that appears when two words or ideas are placed together. They emerge not only as themselves but as something completely new.

statement about the COUNTER collection and prints:

The COUNTER fabric collection highlights the space surrounding and within letterforms: whether open or closed, narrow or wide. In typography, a counter is the area of a letter entirely or partially enclosed by a letterform or symbol. Imagine the ‘hole’ in the middle of a beautiful ‘O’ or the half-circle area at the top of a lowercase ‘e’. This area is not merely emptiness or a negative space; it is blank yet full of potential. COUNTER is part of an ongoing series of fabric studies by e bond that explore language, typography, letterforms, and the written word. The series of letterpress monotypes that inspired the COUNTER fabric collection was created during a two-week residency at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in 2024.