BOOKS WRITTEN
ALZHEIMERS: EMBRACING THE HUMOR
Is a compilation of short stories that were inspired by photographs of a life with both parents afflicted with AD. The double whammy and its compounding effect sets the stage for some stories, funny tragic stories.
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This book is very personal, however many stories help a caregiver new to the disease. I want physicians to read it so they can be more compassionate.
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Copyright 2016 Nina Karavasiles
ISBN:978-0-578-18219-3
Please contact me directly to purchase this book.
Private perceptions pertaining to the properties particular to Public Art"
This catalog describes pieced I have done in both public and private arenas and how the meanings of these separate definitions have overlapped, migrated or stood apart.
It is the catalog from my Masters Thesis (UCSD) 1996
Through Parentheses Writing Series and distributed by Small Press Distribution.
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The Gang of Five means a lot to me. I interviewed them to ask about aging in the arts. I handmade 6 copies. You know, collag-ie, cardboard, screwed together. One copy is available to borrow. You pay the postage and return it so others can read it. My own personal lending library.
Ying Kit Chan, Caroline Farris, David Hailey, Laura Warriner and me.
The Recipe for Friendship book goes along side of the art piece for Little Italy in San Diego. Food is one of those introductions to another culture, like sex is too.
The multi-block art piece is explained. There was a collaboration with the elementary school and a park. The community was involved as was the church. I was up against two friends in the commission and 'competition'.
The art piece has red and white checkerboard tablecloths made of glass mosaics and cast bronze food. The recipe is engraved on a 'napkin' the pencil is to do rubbings of the recipes to take home and try.
Extreme Collage
Was written for two reasons. I was in an exhibit with the Gang of Five in Norman Oklahoma in 2022 and I was teaching an art class with the same name, Extreme Collage
This is a flip book showing the rotations of a solar powered sculpture.
This is my first book. Written in High School, a book about animals for children. I made wood cuts, the pages were typed and numbered by hand. I made a crossword puzzle. Purple burlap is the cover with a fringe. Some time in the 1970s.
This was a bookmaking class I taught in the chaparral of my own studio through the Athenaeum in La Jolla.
We hiked, we collected, drew, wrote and went home with our own bound edition of the day.
The aesthetics (meaning pixelization) and waste, like how many sheets of paper are used to get things right was the subject matter of this book. I'm especially excited about the drawing I did using little boxes that represented how we have gotten used to seeing jaggedy edges with acceptance.
Now as I add this to my website, things are a lot different.
This was a 3 page book with pull-out sliders that showed things that were similar, yet very different. Here is a wilted sunflower with a pull-out of a popped balloon. The punch line of the book had a sexual image.
I lived in a small cabin with no electricity or running water. I made this book about how one makes a cup of coffee in a house of this condition. There were many steps in the procedure and it became comical after a bit. I makes a reader most likely now aware of how modern conveniences take resources and make life easy enough to not notice a great cup of joe.
This is a collaborative 3-D book that Judith Christensen and I made in 2000.
It was recently exhibited in her exhibit at Rose Gallery in San Diego (2026)
