Fall Color

Displays don't have to be difficult or terribly specific.
This one was just books with fall colors.

 

Three paint cans and table cloths made for a surprisingly effective display 

Puzzel it out

As I might have mentioned before, I love to do displays at the library.
Since January is a great time to cuddle up with  a good mystery that was our theme.
This display is called puzzle it out: Mystery and suspense.

As you might have guessed this is all paper (hence the rather droopy magnifying glass.).   the puzzle pieces are copies of book covers of some of out children's mysteries.

Today I completed my first independent book sculpture.  I use the word independent in that I did it at home and wasn't commissioned or paid to make it.
I have as yet to title him.   But while he sets upon one of my shelves his pet name is Jerry.

As I work I have found that there is one dangerous element in my studio.
This element is that all those bits of paper are fascinating to a certain force of destruction.
Each time I open the door this bit of chaos streak in to clear shelves, shred paper, and cause general mayhem.
Her name is Tama,
 I call her the silver bullet.  What ever she ricochets off of  there will be serious collateral damage.  Twice I have had to rescue Jerry from her jaws..  He is now perched on a shelf (hopefully) out of reach.

Do not let this innocent little face fool you.  That is a cat hiding in the chair cushions.
 when you go to set down the razors of doom will savage you where you least want to be savaged.

Here is the savage at work.  I would sic the dog on her but he thinks she is adorable and can do no wrong....
and I though he was smart.  Alas kitten-age rules for now.  And my art quivers in dreadful anticipation.

I love, nay make that LOVE doing displays.  And I got to do one themed " night dreams"

 Who doesn't love fire flies?

 This is my vision of it.
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So this is the last book that I created for Daniel Boone Regional Library for the summer reading program.
It was painful to use such a beautiful book, but it had been damaged beyond any other use.
Of course I was not the only Artist who worked on books.
This next book was done by Dana Bocke

The flowers are quite lovely.

And this butterfly garden was created by Stephanie Hoffmann.

 And this third book is a recycled cook book by Colleen Blake

 I'm showing a number of angles of this one because it has so much detail.  If you look at it from any angle it has a different scene.

As you probably know, libraries are all about paper....at least for now.  And there was a great deal of team work and recycled paper to decorate for the summer reading program.

This dream team was designed by Aimee Leonhard and the team assisted where they could. You cannot see it in the pictures but there are a number of dream catchers with different dream themes on the tree.
There is some wonderful work in the teen dept. but as I rarely get to spend time I have yet to photograph it.

Book reincarnation

 

I love books.  I love reading them.  I love holding them and the way they sound when I turn the pages.
And I love the way old books smell.
These sculptures are made of glue and bits of old books that I have rescued from the recyclers.

This owl is made of several old books.  Some of the feathers are made of paper so old as it nearly flaked apart in my hands.

I like to call this one "expectations", mostly because I'm kind of pompous (when nobody is looking). It has a companion piece. "Conclusions"( bird with a moth in his beak).

It was an accident, but the moth is delicate enough that when someone walks by the poor bug flutters.
Intriguing, but also kind of  disturbing.