Hello Editors!

I've created this blog to show you the artist books I'm submitting for the 1000 Artist' Books project. There are four books: Parrot Saints; Florida Flora Box; House; I Look at Florida. Thanks for looking at my work.

Parrot Saints

The pages are made of laminate (think Formica) sample tiles. The parrot pictures are cut from bird magazines and books. The page edges are covered in copper tape. The binding on the spine is copper-painted tyvek.

The more I looked at the tile samples, the more they looked like icon backgrounds. I often incorporate birds in my work. When I put parrot pictures on the samples, I saw them as little saints.

Florida Flora Box

I live in Oregon and I go to Florida every year for a couple of weeks to visit my family. I visit public gardens and take lots of photos of the tropic plants. They seem so exotic compared to the evergreen forests in Oregon.

The book is bound using the wire-edge binding method. The squares are joined so that you can form a 3-D box.

House

After I learned the wire-edge binding method, I played around with the geometric shapes I could make. I made a pyramid, then a box. Then I realized I could divide the top of the box in two to make a child's-drawing house. I covered the panels with pages from a building construction book. Then I painted it and added the child's-drawing windows and door. I wrote sentences about the parts of the house and put them on the appropriate panels of the building.

I Look at Florida

That's me there on the flap on the right side of the book. You can flap me over any of the pages of the book, so I'm looking at the photo with you.