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1. The chain
The chain
Description
The pages of this book are accordion folded and held in a hard case with cover, spine and back but are not attatched to it; Consists mainly of photographs but also contains Cheryl Lai's Letter of a Madman
2. Simple harmonic motions : based on selected poems from Days by Hank Lazer
Simple harmonic motions : based on selected poems from Days by Hank Lazer
Description
Folded hard cover opens to reveal accordion fold pages of poems; If pages are turned to the left the poems can be read, but if the pages are opened to the right they are blacked out; Each poem is dated and numbered; Case contains CD of poems being read by the author
3. Mending wall
Mending wall
Description
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.
4. Exits west
Exits west
Description
12 p. folded. Book consists of panels with black and white photographs interspersed with white text on green background accordion folded strips with highway grids on the reverse. Front and back cover are maps.
5. Too much sugar
Too much sugar
Description
A single page pop-up book tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Sugar-Pants and the problems that result from too much sugar. The book sleave is printed with a city scape, and is meant to be used as a base support for the opend book. The two scenes displayed-- a roof top garden, and an interior hallway are collaged monoprints, photographed and digirally printed. The story is told in text panels at the bottom of the page.
6. Ode to a grand staircase (for four hands)
Ode to a grand staircase (for four hands)
Description
Ode to a Grand Staircase (for four hands) is based on composer Erik Satie's The March of the Grand Staircase (1914) and it's silent libretto-- musical notes that Satie forbade to be read aloud. The book is housed in a red, cloth covered box with a magnetic closure. The inside back of the case lists facts about Satie. The french-door structure of the book has a central cutouts, so that each page reveals something of the pages to come. Each of the two spines is made up of a shallow accordion fold, with pages glued to the folds in the manner of a flag book. When the covers are pulle out the pages stand out immitating the form of a staircase. When fully extended and viewed from above, the staircase/ piano key motif is further apparent., Signed by the artists
7. Simple harmonic motions : based on selected poems from Days by Hank Lazer
Simple harmonic motions : based on selected poems from Days by Hank Lazer
Description
Folded hard cover opens to reveal accordion fold pages of poems; If pages are turned to the left the poems can be read, but if the pages are opened to the right they are blacked out; Each poem is dated and numbered; Case contains CD of poems being read by the author, Signed by the artists Lazar and Bruggman
8. The train game : plot by fate, characters for real
The train game : plot by fate, characters for real
Description
Consists of panels of text on blue paper which fold open and sepia-tinted photographic prints, mounted on boards; The back of each board shows an image of a train; Issued in box (10 x 27 cm.) with magnet closure, Written by Heidi Hanson; photographs by Jill Timm
9. Dedictvi; Inheritance, or Thanks from Ustinad Labem
Dedictvi; Inheritance, or Thanks from Ustinad Labem
Description
Thick board covers with orange spine; Text in Czech and English: Czech in black and English in red; Produced in Spring 2003 while Barbara Tetenbaum was a Fulbright lecturer in the Czech Republic, Signed by the artist
10. XO: on what might have been our anniversary
XO: on what might have been our anniversary
Description
A poem written for this project by Jeanine Hathaway is printed on transparent organdy cloth overlaying accordion fold pages illustrated with woodcutprints of 'x's and 'o's. Bound in red cloth boards with a yellow paper slipcase with ribbon, Signed by the artist
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