2024: New Maps
A: 2023
![Fires](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Fire_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2023
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Air](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Air_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2023
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Cotton Candy Landscape](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Cotton-Candy-Landscape_72-320x192.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2023
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Fire](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Fire_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2023
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Green Earth, New Sky](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Green-Earth-New-Sky-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2023
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![The Aether](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Aether_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2023
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
B: 2021
![Chartreuse 2](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/chartreuse2_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2021
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size + 2A/P
![Chartreuse](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Chartreuse_14x_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2021
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size + 2A/P
![How to Do Almost Everything](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/How-to-do-Amost-Everything_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2021
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size + 2A/P
![Orange](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/orange_14x_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2021
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size + 2A/P
![Pink](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Pink_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2021
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size + 2A/P
![Super Lovers](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Super-Lovers_14x_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2021
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size + 2A/P
![Victorian Pulp](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Victorian-Pulp-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2021
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size + 2A/P
![Violet](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Violet_14x_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2021
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size + 2A/P
![Waterfall I](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/waterfall_14x_72-320x427.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2021
Size: 32x24", 48x36", 64x48"
Edition: 9 for each size + 2A/P
![Waterfall 2](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Waterfall2_72-320x427.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2021
Size: 32x24", 48x36", 64x48"
Edition: 9 for each size + 2A/P
C: 2020-2021
![Rapture](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Rapture_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium:Archival pigment print
Date: 2020-2021
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Dazed](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Dazed_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium:Archival pigment print
Date: 2020-2021
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Starting Life in Another World](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Starting_Life_in_another_World_72-320x320.jpg)
Starting Life in Another World
Medium:Archival pigment print
Date: 2020-2021
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
D: 2019
![Vintage](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Vintage_72-320x320.jpeg)
Medium: Archival digital print
Date: 2019
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Dawn and Dusk](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Dawn-and-Dusk_72-320x320.jpeg)
Medium: Archival digital print
Date: 2019
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Winter](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Winter_72-1-320x320.jpeg)
Medium: Archival Digital print
Date: 2019
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![White Iris](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/white-iris_72-320x320.jpeg)
Medium: Archival Digital print
Date: 2019
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Desert Sky](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Desert-Sky_72-320x320.jpeg)
Medium: Archival digital print
Date: 2019
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
E: 2018
![English Arabic Dictionary](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/English-Arabic-Dictionary_24x_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2018-2019
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size offered
![Metaphorical](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Metaphorical_24x_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2018-2019
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size offered
![Skeleton Coast](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Skeleton-Coast_24x_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2018-2019
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size offered
![Solitaire](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Solitaire_24x_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2018-2019
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size offered
![Tropic of Capricorn](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Tropic-of-Capricorn_24x_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2018-2019
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size offered
![After the Flood (Hurricane Harvey)](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Barer2017AfterFlood-320x320.jpg)
After the Flood (Hurricane Harvey)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2017
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size + 2A/P
![Coloring Book #2](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/coloringBook2-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2018
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size + 2A/P
![Palimpest](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Palimpest-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2018
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size + 2 A/P
F: 2017
![Webster’s](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Websters_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2017
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Treble](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/treble_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2017
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Santa Fe Winter](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/santafe_-winter_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2017
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Relic](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/relic_72-320x192.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2017
Size: 24x40", 36x60", 48x80"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Perpeptual](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Perpetual_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2017
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Literati](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/literati_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2017
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Kashmir](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/kashmir_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2017
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
G: 2015
![Kingdom](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Kingdom_Barer_96-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival digital print
Date: 2015
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Nightshade](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Nighshade_Barer_96-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2015
Size: 48x48", 36x36", 24x24"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Paris](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Barer_Paris_96-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2015
Size: 48x48", 36x36", 24x24"
Edition: 9 for each size
![713](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Barer_713-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2015
Size: 48x48", 36x36", 24x24"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Americas](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Americas_96-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2015
Size: 48x48", 36x36", 24x24"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Kingdom](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Kingdom_Barer_96-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2015
Size: 48x48", 36x36", 24x24"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Iditarod Trail](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Iditarod_Trail_Barer_96-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2015
Size: 48x48", 36x36", 24x24"
Edition: 9 for each size
![All the Names](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Barer_All-the-Names_96-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2015
Size: 48x48", 36x36", 24x24"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Trekking](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Trekking_Barer_961-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2015
Size: 48x48", 36x36", 24x24"
Edition: 9 for each size
![66 Degrees North](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/66-Degrees-North_Barer_961-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2015
Size: 48x48", 36x36", 24x24"
Edition: 9 for each size
H: Books
![Dictionary (aka P-Z 72)](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/picture-54-320x442.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2013
Size: 14x14", 224x24", 36x36"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Oh!](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/oh-320x324.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2007
Size: 14x14", 24x24", 36x36"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Sky & Prairie](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/Sky-and-Prairie_96-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2017
Size: 24x24", 36x36", 48x48"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Tie-Dye](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/tie_dye_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 14x14", 24x24", 36x36"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Psychedelic](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/psychedelic_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 14x14", 24x24", 36x36"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Ocean](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Ocean_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 14x14", 24x24", 36x36"
Edition: 9 for each size
![First Edition](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/first-edition-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Pigment print on Crane Museo Rag Paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24" 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each sizeE
![Iceberg](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/iceberg_72-320x192.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Date: 2013
Size: 14x23, 24x40", 36x60
Edition: 9 for each size
![1966](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_1966_2009-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: only 1 available, 9
![Blue Labrynth](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Blue-Labyrinth_2007-320x321.jpg)
Date: 2007
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 25 for each size
![Bundle](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Bundle_2010-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Rainbow](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rainbow_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Date: 2013
Size: 14x14", 24x24", 36x36"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Still Life](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Still-Life_2007-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Confetti](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Confetti_2011-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Speed Reading](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/speed-reading_72-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Date: 2011
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Aragon Z](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Aragon-Z_2009-320x320.jpg)
Date: 2011
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Cendrillon aka Cinderella](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Cendrillon_20091-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Freeform Origami](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Freeform-Origami_2011-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Living in My Art](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Living-in-My-Art_2011-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Orb](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Orb_2011-320x320.jpg)
Date: 2011
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![PDR](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_PDR_2009-320x320.jpg)
Date: 2009
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Pink Butterfly](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Pink-Butterfly_2011-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Rapunzel](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Rapunzel_2009-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Roget’s](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Rogets_2007-320x319.jpg)
Date: 2007
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 1 A/P only, 15, 15
Maps
![Wilderness](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/wilderness-320x187.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Date: 2010
Size: 14x24", 24x41", 36x61"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Explorer](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Explorer_2011-320x320.jpg)
Date: 2011
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Journey to Zaragosa](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Journey-to-Zaragoza_2009-320x320.jpg)
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x36", 24x24", 14x14"
Edition: 9 for each size
![Pathfinder](https://susanspiritusgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barer_cara_Pathfinder_2010-320x187.jpg)
Date: 2011
Medium: Archival pigment print on rag paper
Size: 36x60", 14x24"
Edition: 9 for each size
The 24x40" size is sold out.
BIOGRAPHY
My photographs are primarily a documentation of a physical evolution. I have changed a common object into sculpture in a state of flux. The way we choose to research and find information is also in an evolution. I hope to raise questions about these changes, the ephemeral and fragile nature in which we now obtain knowledge, and the future of books.
I arrive at some of my images by chance. Others, through experimentation. Without these two elements, my work would not flow easily from one idea to the next. A random encounter on Drew Street with the Houston Yellow Pages was the primary inspiration for this project. After that chance meeting, I began the search for more books, and more methods to change their appearance.
I realized I owned many books that were no longer of use to me, or for that matter, anyone else. Would I ever need “Windows 95?” After soaking it in the bathtub for a few hours, it had a new shape and purpose. Half Price Books became a regular haunt, and an abandoned house gave me a set of outdated reference books, complete with mold and neglect. Each book tells me how to begin according to its size, type of paper, and sometimes contents.
As I begin the process, I first consider the contents of each volume. I didn’t spend more than a few seconds on “Windows 95,” but the “New Century Dictionary of the English Language,” is a treasure that, because of its fascinating illustrations, and archaic examples, saved it from taking on a new form. Sculpting segued to thoughts on obsolescence and the relevance of libraries in this century.
Half a century ago, students researched at home with the family set of encyclopedias, or took a trip to the library to find needed information. Now, owning a computer, and connecting to the internet gives a student the ability to complete a research paper without ever going near a library. I have fully embraced that technology, and would not want to be without it, but, I also fear that it is rapidly leading us to rely less and less on the reference books common in the last two centuries.
With the discarded books that I have acquired, I am attempting to blur the line between objects, sculpture, and photography. This project has become a journey that continues to evolve.
A final note – No important books have been injured during the making of any of these photographs.