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Houston Book Arts Group
Houston, TX

Hurricane

Eight members of the Houston Book Arts Group collaborated on the pop-up book Hurricane as an artistic response to having endured Hurricane Ike in September 2008.

Experiencing Hurricane Ike was frightening, grueling, yet compelling, and we found catharsis in creating a book that used pop-up mechanisms often associated with children’s entertainment to reveal the destruction and drama associated with such a deadly storm.

Paper engineer Bruce Foster's presentation of his work to our group inspired us to use pop-up structures to tell our tales. After the group decided on the size and paper to be used, each collaborator designed and built one or more pages and we refined the designs, perfected the pop-up mechanisms, and bound the edition of twelve as a group.

Working on this project gave us even greater respect for paper engineers and their pop-up constructions. The medium is complicated yet versatile and deserves further exploration.

Participating artists include:
Darcy Curtin
Lane G. Devereux
Kristin Aaker Flanagan
Amanda York Focke
Myssie Forrest Light
Nancy Luton
Linda Ann Stelljes
Marjorie Silverstein

Paper, plastic, metal, binder's board, leatherette covers, silver foil stamped title. 10 pages. 7.25 x 5.75 x 2 inches. Edition of 12.

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