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.
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.
Ill. (etching) by Terry Horrigan on center pages, folded to create a pop-up effect in center, with artist's signature on centerfold print. Set in Poliphilus and Blado cast by Michael and Winifred Bixler, and printed by Terry Horrigan on Fabriano Ingres paper with text by Catherine Mutz and calligraphy design by Ann Miller. Natural-color Nepalese Lokta paper wrapper; brown Lokta endpapers.
One-of-a-kind mixed media flap book, composed of paper ephemera, acrylic, colored pencil, veneer, and wood, created by Julie Mader-Meersman "Contrary to common perceptions about the physical pain and fear of natural childbirth, 'Oxytocin good' was created to memorialize the labor and delivery experience of the artist and share the view that a natural birth event can be physically and psychologically calm and pleasant. The book specifically celebrates oxytocin, the naturally produced feel-good hormone that spurs labor and human bonding emotions. The book is miniature in format to reference the physically tiny origins of life and includes a container area that opens and closes, suggestive of an opening pelvis. Further, ephemeral materials--such as female clothing patterns, germination diagrams, and rent receipts--as well as painterly imagery are used to focus thoughts and feelings about the alignment of physical, emotional and psychological events leading up to and beyond the birth moment"--Artist's statement from 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Or., website
