What Are the Colors of the Place You Love Most in This World? The Book

This book was hand bound with a Coptic style binding, sewn with linen thread. The cover is of hand dyed paper dyed with Creosote, Mesquite and Ephedra viridis. 

I inscribe the forms of these plants to know them more closely, to know each curve and fold and the wondrous ways they grow. Each plant perfectly adapted to the place it resides.  To know them as closely as I know myself.

The pages of this book are a collection of 16 intaglio prints, the plates were sketched between May and October 2025, and were printed over the months spanning 2025-2026. Studies of botanical beauties from some of the places I love most, from the Rocky Mountains of Northern New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. 

This book measures 11 1/8 x 15 1/2” and is one and 1/6 inches thick. (That is 283 mm x 393 mm and 27 mm deep)

you can find more information in photos about the book here - https://jeannieortiz.com/what-are-the-colors-of-the-place-you-love-most-in-this-world/

One of the photos is of me holding the book with my book mentor Priscilla Spitler at the opening of the show.