This elaborate variation on an accordion book unfolds from top to bottom. Each unfolded page, unfolds from right to left revealing a stanza of Robert Frost's poem, and a pop-up interior wall between the two sides. As the book is completely unfolded, the wall stretches from the top to the bottom, reading good fences make good neighbors. With a beaded pull to open the book and dust jacket.
This book is made of a circle-shaped sheet of paper, with a smaller circle cut in the center, accordion-folded to form a conical shape. Painted images are reproduced to depict scenes from life in a town.
Color images combined with text; Images are abstracted but still recognizable in most cases; Many gatefold pages throughout book; Cover wraps around book from back page
Published as part of Book Works’ Chap Book Series (No. 7), printed offset in an edition of 1,000 copies, b&w, 72 pages with a colour soft cover. --Artist's website.
Poetry, calligraphy, photography and book design by Kazuko Takeuchi of Osaka, Japan, completed in the Spring of 1970 while a graduate student at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. Printed in the Fall of 1970 in an edition of 300, of which this is no. 186 --p. [65]
Wrap around portfolio includes 8 blank sheets cliped to front cover, shopping information bound to the back of the portfolio, and a lucky shopping penny; Bound in handmade folder fastened with velcro, paper fasteners, and binder's clip
Folding pages cut in the shape of leotards with tutus; Leotards are black, tutus vary in color; Text is written on tutus and wraps around to back side of pages