“Eden is a poetic look at the passage of time, sometimes bright, sometimes melancholy. It is beautiful, even seductive, from its birch bark endpapers to the visually compelling collages and snippets of often provocative words... A hardbound, slender tome with a robin’s egg blue cover backgrounding an image of a languid water lily, the book confirms Thoreau’s statement, ‘How much virtue there is in simply seeing.’”
Mason Riddle, mnartists.org “In his new book Eden, David Coggins captures the quiet beauty of his summer cabin, a family heirloom in northern Wisconsin, in a series of collages. A unique visual ode to those highly personal places in the wild that feed our souls...”
Bonnie Blodgett, publisher/editor of The Garden Letter |