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TGIF — Shrine I">TGIF — Shrine I

1 September 2009

After a long time sit­ting on the table in 5 or 6 pieces the Guadalupe/Sirena shrine has finally come together. I never did find a place for the rose petals. A cou­ple of details. My hand col­ored and glit­tered Vir­gin­sita. The oddly appeal­ing Chicken Boy.

Tagged as: blue, box, madonna, sirena

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One Day Book — (K) Kicks

18 February 2009

…com­ing soon… it’ sit­ting in the press get­ting flat. Mean­while here are the graph­ics for the cov­ers of  “(K) Kicks” The book pretty much sucks — it’s a one day after all. But I like the graphics.

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An exhibition of books in Oaxaca

14 October 2008

Each time I am in Oax­aca I stop into the Casa De La Ciu­dad. There is always some­thing inter­est­ing in the lit­tle sala to the right of the entrance. When I was last there (Sep­tem­ber 2008) it was the exhi­bi­tion –Los Libres, Los Via­jes, y El Tiempo (Books, Trav­els, and Time — roughly) The problem […]

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Clever Packaging

15 September 2008

On my way back to my inter­rupted vaca­tion in Oax­aca I had the chance to upgrade my DFW to MEX flight to busi­ness class. I *love* busi­ness class. The only thing bet­ter than the leg room is the refuge from the “cheap as we can make it” ethos of coach. Includ­ing this lovely lit­tle bit […]

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WIP — The Loop Road Project (pop-ups)">WIP — The Loop Road Project (pop-ups)

19 August 2008

Our recent vaca­tion gave Jim the chance to take a lot of pic­tures of motor­cy­cles and rid­ers on the prover­bial “closed course.” Some of them are in fact “pro­fes­sional rid­ers.” I now have tons of unclut­tered pho­tos to work with. Hence the cre­ation of a new series of work, this time in engi­neered paper. First […]

Tagged as: motorcycles, paper engineering, pop-ups

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Playing with (paper) Dolls

25 June 2008

This lit­tle har­le­quin dancer is sit­ting on my work­table wait­ing for a face. That’s always the hard part. I started with the doll parts and some fancy red and gold paper that became her tights. Then she got a skirt. I started with some organza and cut two lay­ers. the upper layer is notched and then the […]

Tagged as: paper dolls

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Paper Boxes

30 April 2008

I got a kit for mak­ing a paper box last week. It was from Books by Hand. They have a num­ber of kits for mak­ing books/albums and boxes using book board, book cloth, and dec­o­ra­tive papers. Ben Franklin sells the kits. Mostly they sell com­plete kits but if you scout around you can find kits […]

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