Bøker av Paula Billups

When her career is derailed by a rare disease, artist Paula Billups takes up knitting to pass the time. While unraveling her work, Paula thinks of Penelope in Homer's "Odyssey", the queen whose cleverness holds a hundred unwelcome suitors at bay, promising to marry when her weaving is finished, but undoing her work each night. She confounds the suitors for several years.Mystified by the success of such a fragile pretext, Paula builds an ancient-style loom and begins to weave and unweave. By re-creating Penelope's ruse, Paula seeks understand Penelope's power and hopes to re-weave her own creative practice, in spite of the illness that saps her energy.Reflecting on the unravelings and re-weavings of her art career, and using the insight gained from her hours at the loom, Paula discovers the invisible weapons and hidden strategies Penelope creates and uses in her secret war.To pursue a deep examination of Homer's Odyssey and Penelope's place in it, Paula enlists the help of her father, Dr. Edward V. George, a retired Classical scholar.Braiding together reports from the studio, research notes on the ancient text, letters, and journal entries, Penelope Unweaving documents an artist's search for the power to re-weave a new creative life from the remnants of the old one.

In August of 2017, artist Paula Billups announced she would create 30 paintings in 30 days and offer them for sale, with 100% of the sale price to be donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center. She did this independently, in response to the racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. On completion of the project, 30 days had passed, 28 of the works had sold, and Ms. Billups donated over $1,300 to the SPLC. This book is a collection of all 30 works. 100% of the profit from its sale will be donated to the SPLC. Ms. Billups painted scenes of tranquility and great natural beauty, drawing on the gorgeous landscapes of New England and the small wonders of everyday life. These jewel-like paintings were created in the spirit of peace and justice, and in hope of a more harmonious world for everyone.

BERLIN, GERMANY. 2016. Brian Mistre, a developer who has a number of buildings to demolish, finds himself helping a band of "Microtemporal Archaeologists" - scientists who study the very recent past through the posters and signs that cover Berlin's buildings. Dr. Gioia Arrigoni, the group's enigmatic leader, puts him to work cataloging scraps for the archive, and an unlikely alliance takes root . . . A meditation on friendship, vocation, and culture, "PAPER" offers notes stolen from the group's archive. The developer-turned-amateur archaeologist eschews scientific notation in favor of humorous observations and stories of working with "Dr. A" and her assistants. A love letter to Berlin, the reader finds hidden haunts and special sites in Berlin, where liberty, love, and creativity rule the streets of one of the world's most seductive cities. For more about the author, visit her website at www.paulabillups.com