Mountain Snow

This book pays homage to my love of snow and high places. The hexagonal box is stored in a silk bag with ribbon tie and antique lace trim. A six-panel roll-out book is secured to one side of the box with a small bone crochet hook.

After removing the book, it is set up around the box and hand-cut two-dimensional accordions pull out to form an actual snowflake.

The six accordions are actual silhouettes of four peaks I have climbed in Oregon and Washington, and two I wish I could climb, Denali and Everest. Behind each mountain is a pocket holding several hand-cut snowflakes, which are to be scattered about when the book is set up for display.

Tsunami 2011

This is a combination accordion/scroll action book. To honor victims of the 2011 Tsunami, there is a Japanese theme throughout the book, including a tortoise-shell binding, a chopstick holder, reproduction of a woodcut collaged on the cover, bits of woodblock-printed and other Japanese papers on the accordion pages, and Suminagashi-marbled drafting film for the tidal wave.

The tidal wave is rolled around the chopstick, which is ready to be removed so that the wave can roll out over the acordion pages.

This close-up of the collaged accordion pages depicts (from left to right) the shallow waters, the low-lying beach areas and the developed towns and villages, with everything jumbled together in chaos.

Nautilus Scroll Book #2

This is a one-of-a-kind scroll book.

The page emerges from the shell. On one side it has an original over-marbled pattern called "Water's Edge," depicting a shallow tidal pool with sand dollars, starfish and snails.

The other side of the page has an original haiku inspired by a day on the Pacific Coast in Oregon. The interior and exterior of the shell are covered with hand-marbled and paste papers.

Drowning in Denial

This is a Medieval coin-book structure with content addressing a very modern concern: global warming.

Each of the five discs has a different theme. The top: species extinctions; the right: changes in weather patterns; the bottom: the population explosion; the left: polar ice melting, low areas flooding; the center: suggestions for what we can do to address these problems. The content is paraphrased from Al Gore's book, An Inconvenient Truth.

Each of the discs has a different format including origami fold-out, barn-door fold, semi-circular pages, pockets with pull-outs and a rotating moire screen. The pages are decorated with drawing, collage and writing. All of the decorated pages (marbled/paste) and case edge are by the artist. The book board, ribbons and fabric case are all reused materials.