“The marriage of the ancient/future technologies of loom/computer may seem an unlikely union... However, In Warren Lehrer’s GRRRHHHH, the computer responds beautifully to the natural grid of warp and weft inherent to weaving, and Sandra Brownlee-Ramsdale’s weaving in turn is admirably suited to the matrix of pixles inherent to computer graphics... Brownlee-Ramsdale’s potent style and image refer to times of special social significance. It is this referral to which Lehrer is responding. He has taken that reference and built on it and with it, actualizing a history of social patterns... and social context...”
Deborah Hickman, FiberArts
“GRRRHHHH is a delight! Lehrer’s playfulness is prolific and joyful, and that is the heart of his work...”
George Gessert, Northwest Review
“Lehrer’s magnum opus GRRRHHHH is the first book to really convince me that computer imagemaking has come of age... Don’t most of us, at one time or another, feel the impulse to invent a basic mythology or a new language? How many books in every generation take it from the beginning and set out replace Eden. GRRRHHHH, Lehrer’s latest participatory read, attempts no less...”
Betsy Davids, Fine Print
“One of the most imaginative and ambitious book artists’ of our time, Warren Lehrer’s most recent sumptuously designed and elegantly printed book, GRRRHHHH, draws upon text by Dennis Bernstein and weavings of imaginary animals and landscapes by Sandra Brownlee-Ramsdale...”
Richard Kostelantetz, American Book Review
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