The Tear Catcher, 5" x 3", 1998
		Artist's Books
		Beginning her artistic career as a poet, Creus published two collections, Del Amor, el Tiempo y las Deudas and Los ojos de los otros in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a visual artist, she deals with books in different ways. She produced Exile, which started out as a large installation combining images and words that recall experiences that are both personal and universal as they speak to that most familiar of modern scenarios: exile; and Nomads, which evokes through images of innocence and often paradoxical texts both in English and in Spanish the experience of being "the other," the eerie sensations of displacenment and loss. The Book of Prejudices, The Tear Catcher, White Lies, El Grito\The Scream, are more conceptual, perhaps more whimsical. The "wall books," Lamento de bandoneon, Nostalgia and Pasion, are perhaps more reminiscent of her fabric paintings and of her latest white on black drawings. In a format that allows them to be shown open on the wall, they combine fabrics, embroidery and drawing, each dealing with an aspect of the Argentine tango. Artist's Books, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Arts 1998.
		Lamento, 20" x 24" open, 1998 fabrics, plastic mesh, embroidery floss, pigment