*Kate Rivers has always loved books, and the idea of being able to see through them. In her work, she is trying to capture both sides of this dichotomy: the feeling of being enveloped in a book and creating her own mystery. Rivers' work also largely is about memory: "what we save to remember and the memories we fear we might lose." When her mother was living with cancer she pasted ephemera on her walls to connected her to events she might forget. Rivers works in two series, the Book, and Nest Series. Both are about how we struggle with memory and loss. Rivers recent focus is the Book series. The idea that underlies this work is drawn from her lifelong love of books and the narratives they contain. In addition, this work starts from a place of found objects, - the spines and covers of books.Rivers' has always been a reader; in the Book Series she devours volumes in a literal and physical way, one that satisfies both the reader and artist, and allows her to give into her urge to destroy and compose something new from the remains. Kali, the master of death, time, and change, tearing things up to create anew.What we find meaningful personally in one moment shifts and changes. Rivers' work is a comment about her grief over our material culture and the terrible price it has brought. There is, simply, too much stuff. And all of it, if it is saved, might be in service of something more valuable that we do not want to lose: a time, a place, a feeling. What we don’t want to lose. No matter the cost. “You remember too much,my mother said to me recently.Why hold onto all that? And I said,Where can I put it down?”― Anne Carson Kate Rivers' drawings earned her a full scholarship at Columbus College of Art and Design and later a scholarship and fellowship at The University of South Carolina. After earning her BFA degree she married and began a family teaching art at the elementary and university level. Rivers' taught printmaking and drawing at the university level where she retired from a tenured position to practice art full time in Santa Fe, New Mexico Images can be seen in print in the 2010 and 2012 West divisions of New American Paintings. Rivers' was honored to be featured in “Art on the Edge” at the New Mexico Museum of Art, and one of five women in New Mexico nominated as Women to Watch, representing the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Among my public collections are: The Bataan Building in Santa Fe, University of New Mexico, Central New Mexico Community College, Eastern New Mexico University, USAO in Oklahoma, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Virginia Hospital.