Secret Lives - an altered children's board book
Made March 2007 for
the Bay View Book Arts Gallery exhibit
"Serious Fun"
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She led a life full of
The spinner changes the plants in the pot.
The right side flap opens to reveal
the topiary behind the shrubbery.
The right-hand page is hinged on the right side and opens to reveal eleven children.
The copper tab pulls down to reveal her secret.
The ribbon pulls up a slider.
The original board book was about some character from Barney counting to ten. I sanded and gessoed the pages and painted them with acrylic paint. The collaged images are photocopies of 19th-century photographs from my collection, colored with Permapaque markers and acrylic paint.