WE FOLD OPEN THE HOUSE: A narrative in poetryPrinted by the author at the
Independent Publishing Resource Center
318 SE Main St.
Portland, Oregon USA
February 2024
This pages are printed on an assortment of papers including drafting, tracing, glassine, and tissue papers. The writing is laser printed and screenprinted, with handwriting taking from journal entries. The back and front covers are made from repurposed materials and the binding is handstiched in waxed linen thread.
Copywrite © Ahnika Wood, 2024. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written constent from the author, except in the case of quotations embodied in other writing.
Variable edition of 20
Originally, these writing were just for me - pages from journals when I needed to let something run out of me. It was a way to listen to and hold compassion for my overwhelming, fleeting emotive realities and place sights and sounds to my internal world. Over time, I started to see my writing as evidence of an underlying jounrey through safety, fear, loss, and creation. Though they were not planned out, they foretell and remember each other.
As a collection, they document my experience of patching together and releasing found kinship with those around me amidst collective turmoil - an experience of belonging throughout change. They are honest and temporal, describing a three year period through the portal of intimacy.
AHNIKA WOOD, Photography Credit: Karina Rovira, Shaye Garrigan, Mario Gallucci, Wiley