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Moth in a Box by Sarah Fawcett 

Mixed-media and occasional book artist Sarah Fawcett depicts the death of a moth, but through the medium of a box rather than a book this time!

A few weeks back, a poor little moth passed over on my back door step, and  I marveled at its beauty and wanted to preserve this little creature to admire. So I got making a little box for he/she from polymer clay.

I wanted to have a box that was not only open at the top, but the bottom too, so you can view him/her from underneath, so i cut a little window on the bottom. Once I did that, I placed some text transparency inside and poured Ice Resin until the box was full of this wonderfully crystal clear magic. The resin made its wings see through, with just the slightest of colour but with so much detail.

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An Unwritten Book by Fiona Watson (wildgoosechase)

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Venus and Mars by Alicia Bailey

Altered astronomy book/assemblage exploring the relationship between the artist’s father (who was orphaned as a child) and her great aunt who raised him. The bookwork is entirely made from the personal belongings of her now deceased father Tom and great aunt Ruth.

“I like to think about them both. They are the two in my family whose personality traits my own are most akin to.  Intelligent, educated, filled with curiosity, fascinated with the physical world, and introverted. Ruth was passionate about the organic structure of the world she knew and studied biology. Tom studied the physical structure of objects and relationships between them, and became a mechanical engineer. I find solace in the handling and manipulation of objects and became an artist. I have an archive rich with objects belonging to them both and often include items from those archives in my personal studio work.”

Willie’s Choice - Altered Book by Lucinda Beatty

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Pour Les Nuages, Passer Par L’Escalier Marc Giai-Miniet

The artist Boxes, open to one side, reveal detailed rooms filled with objects that tell a story, a story that we as the viewer are invited to discover.

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Lyric Intervention No. 1 (2005) by Susan Collard

Cover of reclaimed tongue-and-groove fir, with spine of old door spindles tied with linen thread.

Nested Book (2008) by Susan Collard

“A board book in the most literal sense. This book emerged from the idea for a nested book structure, one that could be unpacked like a series of matryoshka dolls. A secret compartment at the end of the book houses a removable page with four miniature books.”

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Mark Manders’s sculptures can be read as poems that have been freed from the language and evoke a mysterious world of ghostly afterimages and waking dreams.