I’m a bookie.  I’ve loved books since I was a small girl and decided to start making them by hand.  (I also like to make art in boxes, but that’s another story.)

I make books as art.  What does that mean, you ask.   The book arts ranges from traditional books, to books as sculpture,  taking existing books and pages and manipulating them into  new forms, and combining elements of the book with other objects.  The possibilities are limitless. 

For instance, I throw sawed off bound pages from a book into the bathtub, let dry, and see the shapes that emerge. Then I dye or paint them.  

Much of the time I have little idea where I’m going with a piece of book art, but I hope to enjoy the journey, wherever I end up.