NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTION POP-UP BOOKS
ENTOMOLOGY, OSTEOLOGY, TAXIDERMY
Explorations with the art of pop-ups. This includes smaller, single-spread folds utilizing paper engineering techniques to create engaging and interactive artist books.
"Lilith's Cave" – a Tunnel book depicting the Medieval Jewish folktale from Howard Schwartz's retelling and collection. In the story, there is an alternate world only visible through mirrors, where demons and evil temptations exist.
In Lilith’s Cave, there is a mirror stolen from a haunted home and hung in the daughter’s room of a family. Over time, the daughter of the demoness Lilith from inside the mirror influenced the girl to act in ways deemed undesirable for a woman at the time. This story represents the mirrored, mystical world in this folklore as well as a female-centered narrative.
