When I was young I knew that creating 3-Dimensional books would be an expression of deep wonder. I watched them appear in my mind, they cried out to come forth. My enthusiastic passion was met with scoffs and ridicule. (This was before the scratch n sniff and pop-up books… and those were not the type of book that wildly grew in the forests of my heart.)
And now, forty-five years later, I will tell you a secret. I created my “books” anyhow. I could not help myself; they begged me to create them and bring them into life. I hid them away so they would be safe. I now have a treasure trove of my ‘One of A Kind’ Handmade Artist Books.
I am a handmade paper maker, a clay artist, one who works with precious gems and yes, a lover of words. When you twirl all these ingredients together after a sleepless moonlit night you may get a One Of A Kind Book, something like this …
Enjoy this short video!
One of my dreams is to tour and share these “books”, to excite and encourage magnificent mergings. Books of clay, of wood, of torn paper mingled with words and stardust. Perhaps another of these “books” will jump into this blog site sometime soon…
In the meantime, always dream. Always create. And always walk in beauty.
