Works

Flowers
Dried flowers from special and ordinary and happy and sad occasions, pressed into carefully selected pages from books of photographs. After there were no more pages in her book of...
Dictionary Diaries
Dictionary Diaries chronicles words Caryl has looked up--sometimes for spelling, sometimes for pronunciation, sometimes for meaning, and sometimes for etymology. Sometimes the words she looked up weren't really words at...
Crayons
For many of us growing up, the colors, wrappers and titles of Crayola crayons constituted a gold standard. In these revealing pages, Caryl contrasts generic-crayon manufacturers' abject approximations of Crayola...
Archives
"The show's scene-stealer, for me, was the work of Richmond-based "collections artist" Caryl Burtner, the centerpiece of whose work -- contained in five three-ring binders so humble a visitor might...
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