Book Art, particularly in the form of “book boxes” is a regular ongoing interest of mine. Several regional libraries in Virginia, including the Fishersville Public Library and in my home town, the Staunton Public Library, have provided exhibit venues for these works.. Examples of these works acan be seen below. A related project is the approximately 120 “Oz Boxes (Beyond Oz),” that I have made which consist of dioramas constructed using cigar boxes as a base. These works consist of figures from the Frank Baum stories (Doothy, Toto, The Tin Man, Scarecrow and the Tin Man confronting our world.
Book Boxes exhibited at the Staunton Public Library , Spring 2018.
Selection of Book Boxes exhibited at the Fishersville and Staunton-Augusta Public Libraries 2017 and 2018
- Somerset Maugham, Razor’s Edge
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- Sylvia Plath, Bell Jar
- M. Forester, A Passage to India
- Steven King, Carrie
- Louis Sachar, Holes
- Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz (Somehow I Don’t Think We are in Kansas Anymore)
- Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz (Somewhere Over the Rainbow)
- Walter Benjamin, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Reflections of the Tin Woodman)
- Chairman Mao, Little Red Book
- Stephen King, Carrie\Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
- Madeline L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
- Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard
- Virginia Wolf, To the Lighthouse
- Emily Dickinson, There is No Frigate like a Book
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
- Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
- Saint Matthew, The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive
- Large Collage by Gene Provenzo, Edward Lear Collage, Owl and the Pussy Cat