Marin Museum Of Contemporary Art Altered Book Show

MMOCA has an annual Altered Book Show with around 150 entries.  I was fortunate to receive an Honorable Mention this year.
I have always been intrigued about how our minds can translate a portion of a letter and know what it is.  I used a discarded book of English verses and collaged them on small squares then placed portions of a Bodoni font that relected the letter in the verse.  I framed it with discarded book covers. I designed a new Hanko at the bottom right corner.  I called this piece Forms On My Mind.

Final piece with my red Hanko at the bottom corner.

Side view to see the 3 dimension using 7 different book covers to frame and support.

Got my handy drill out to put it all together...

The reverse side with the washers and screws and picture hanger.

Polymer Clay Books

What a great time I had with Dayle Doroshow at her polymer clay workshop making surfaces for books.  She is so inspiring and fun.  Here are the few I made:

Fronts of books. I must have been in a water, asian mood.....do you see the frog, Asian eyes and gold fish with Japanese symbols?

Pages, accordian style variations.

This is a pin I finished after learning how to blend black with metallic silver...very simple but effective.