Liz Chalfin

Liz Chalfin

  • Images
    • summer rains
    • views from the anthropocene
    • iterations
    • this strange time
    • papercuts
    • pit
    • sentinel
    • before
    • havana in hindsight
    • panoramas
    • woman in ruins
    • cuba
    • etchings 2009-16
    • you are here
    • artist's books
      • malecon book
      • canyon ferry afternoon
      • book of days
      • cape cod beach book
      • san alejandro book
      • canyon ferry book
      • guanabo beach book
      • subway book
      • ballpark book
      • old faithful book
      • another day
      • a day
      • prayer book
      • a melancholy look at the end of the 20th century
      • creation
      • meditation on beauty
    • accidental stories
  • Biography
  • Resume
  • Artist's Statement
  • Bibliography
  • Contact
Pit (book)
2020
embossing
9" x 8" x 1"

One side of each copper plate used for Pit (sculpture) was etched with text about the history of the Berkeley pit mine, it's impact on the communities around it and the ecosystems. Blind embossed into the paper, the words text must be "mined" from the page to be read.


all images copyright liz chalfin - florence, massachusetts - 2025