BOOKs & WritingS
Winter of Loss
A deeply personal tribute, the images and poetry reflect on the loss of her late husband. As her husband’s health made its progressive decline, Schulze found herself photographing a small jardiniere of bulbs that would never come to flower. After her husband’s death, Schulze drew the parallel between the diminishing life of her husband and the concurrent decay of the bulbs that did not bloom.
Book and cover design: Morris Jackson
Published by Schulze Press, Sunnyvale, California
Poetic License
In this retrospective, Schulze shares her vision of the world and hones it with a beautiful and poetic voice. – Deborah Corsini, curator
Book and cover design: Morris Jackson
Published by Schulze Press, Sunnyvale, California
The Art of Joan Schulze
This is a survey of her career, featuring full-color reproductions, essays by three distinguished artists and scholars, original poems and comprehensive chronological and bibliographical lists, is as remarkable an achievement as one of Joan Schulze’s mixed-media studio works.
– Robert McDonald, editor
The Stone
The sculptor (She) started with a beautiful stone. She was mesmerized with its possibilities. Chipping away, each iteration demanded more work. The chip pile grew. The stone changed. Its beauty seemed to melt away as She tried to find the essence. The chips were having their way, stealing from the stone its original promise. When frustrated by her inability to find what She was looking for, She revisited the chip pile. She could not describe this impulse to spend time sorting. Organizing these particles into standing columns (stēlē) was somewhat like playing with beach stones. Nothing serious.
The original stone had been altered in many ways and remained in the studio taking up space. She decided to move it near the columns. By chance it created an opportunity to see this stone anew and what now seems obvious, the stēlē and stone became one
Notes:
Chipping away is easy.
New discoveries require patience. Attempts to create something worthy,
beautiful and maybe even remarkable can be illusive and challenging.
Joan Schulze
2024 - 2025
