Win a Fortune

Pocket Book. Made from blue card and a series of offers to win a fortune, win a trip, become a millionaire, which came in the mail. 

2009ish.

Brown-paper Family packages

This is an early concertina. Made from a brown paper bag I was given when shopping in the Blue Mountains one long weekend. 

The book is filled with old family photos, pictures of my works and rubber stamps (bought in Leura that same weekend).

Cornell-inspired box

I love Joseph Cornell's work.

After my second trip to Chicago I made this box from a monopoly money-tray. 

It's covered in a map of Chicago, and contains things I mostly picked up from my Dad's desk after he died.

The plastic seal is from when I was creating works for Coastal. I bought a packet of plastic star fish which also included seals and fish. 

The button WTS 05 is from Walking the Street 2005. Walking the street was a festival in Newtown where artists decorated / put works in the windows of the local retailers. I participated a few times. Once at Mailboxes Etc (where I put pictures of Mailboxes) and once at Buzzz bar (where I did a work of coffee cups inspired by having breakfast at Buzzz). 

The words on the beads are from "trying to leave the ground". From Starlings in Winter a poem by Mary Oliver

The plastic chips and the dots with smiles on them are from a book of mind-developing games from Edward de Bono. The watch was my dad's

The metal letter R, asterisk and question mark I bought when I was in a haberdashery in Chicago in 2008. The golf dlub key ring membership tags were my dads. The little wooden dolly I picked up on one of my walks through the back streets of Newtown. It's from an old kid's puzzle.

This book was made for my friend Linda Calgaro for her birthday in 2009.

 it was early in my book-making career.

I made a pocket book is from a Sydney street directory and then a boxto put it in.

the pocketbook has a ribbon around it to hold it flat

 I painted some of the backs some of the pockets with colour (transparent red). And added some of my own works in photographs.

 in the pockets I put all kinds of things with inspirational quotes on the back. Keys, ribbon, a tiny fan, swing tags from clothes I had bought. The inspirational quotes were all around joy and inspiration.

some of the pockets have pieces like this of odd shaped cards. This one is an e.e. cummings quote "it takes courage to grow up and become who you really are".

The photograph is one I took at North Wollongong on the beach when I was doing my coastal series

the closure of the book, always a hard thing, is a piece of ribbon through a hole. The hole Marks Linda's apartment on the map.

brown and green