Photo: Young Kwak for The Pacific Northwest InlanderNow on view at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture is the largest exhibition of the work of Timothy C. Ely ever assembled under one roof.Since the early 1970's Ely has been creating unique, one-of-a-kind mind-bending bookworks. On the form of his work Ely says “I became really aware that the atlas form would be the springboard — the point of departure — for everything I needed to deal with.” Using few, if any, words and drawing heavily from science, geometry, and religion one can spend a lifetime reading and comprehending each...
