Elaine Koretsky:In Memoriam

摘要

Elaine Koretsky was the quintessential busy person,infusing passion,energy,and creativity in everything she did.In her Carriage House studio,unusual plant fibers,many from her garden,were spread out on a table in various states of preparation to be made into paper.In her home,projects covered every horizontal surface.A book project,with accompanying paper samples covered the entire dining room table,while a script for a documentary video occupied the kitchen table.Printed copies of emails were everywhere.When her husband Sidney retired from his medical practice in 1998,(his office was in their home)she took over the entire office wing.His file cabinets of medical records were replaced with folders with titles such as”Silkworms,"“Bark Cloth-Uganda,”and”Letters to Dard Hunter II.”Residual colorful pulp from years of pulp spraying still cover the front wall.Her playful mobile of dried colored pulp disks,peeled from the bottoms of 5-gallon buckets,continues to hang from the ceiling.Upstairs at the International Paper Museum,her latest exhibition from her vast collection is carefully displayed,accompanied by a color catalog with informative essays.