Fear is a Careful Plan

Waxed handmade paper and Sakamoto paper, photopolymer and linoleum cut imagery, printed from metal type

2019

Fear is a Careful Plan is a set of ten erasure poems crafted from Abraham Myerson M.D.’s 1920 publication The Nervous Housewife. These poems explore the historical dismissal of women in the field of psychology by reimagining Myerson’s text. Translucency is critical to shaping the voice of these poems; visible layers represent the multiple voices that overtime have had an impact on defining and treating women’s issues. 

Fear is a Careful Plan was produced with support from the College Book Art Association. It is held in the collections of the Bainbridge Museum of Art and Kenyon College Special Collections. For more on this work, see Abecedarian Gallery.