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Chewing with the Paper Chipmunk

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Musings from the Paper Chipmunk Press, focusing on artist's books and paper arts in the remote Redwoods of Northwestern California.

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  • Victorian Cutups

    Posted on Sunday February 7th, 2010 at 03:36 am in exhibitions, collage, paper cutting, mary delany

    As I mentioned earlier, I've been looking at Mrs. Delany and Her Circle, the catalogue for a recent show about the 18th C. collagist that was at the Yale Center for British Art and is soon to be at Sir John Soane's Museum in London (14 Feb - 1 May)...

  • Adverse Events on Codex...with Some Poisonous Plant Exposure

    Posted on Thursday February 4th, 2010 at 06:57 am in Projects, book art, miniature books, pharmaceutical art, alternative book materials

    I have a collection of pharmaceutical informational inserts. I mostly use them as art material. Some actually came with my own prescriptions, and some were given to me. (It's helpful to have an acquaintance in the medical field who is willing to pass...

  • Codex Goes to the Fair

    Posted on Thursday February 4th, 2010 at 06:50 am

    As it turns out, my last two available bottles of Codex, out of an edition of 5, are heading to San Francisco this week. If you're in the Bay Area this weekend, Feb 6 - 7, consider stopping by Eureka Books' booth at the San Francisco Antiquarian Bo...

  • Mrs. Delany, Part II

    Posted on Friday January 22nd, 2010 at 03:37 pm in collage, paper cutting, paper mosaics, mary delany

    It was in the mid 1990s and we were getting ready for a trip to the UK. As I compiled a list of places I'd hoped to visit, I showed my husband a picture of one of Mary Delany's 18th C. "paper mosaics" (as she called them) in an old book. Ho...

  • Earthquake

    Posted on Sunday January 10th, 2010 at 03:38 am in Earthquake, humboldt county

    We had a 6.5 magnitude earthquake yesterday, centered to the south of us here in Humboldt County. Fortunately for us, we shook a lot and lost our electric for several hours, but there was no damage and nothing fell off the shelves here at home. Peopl...

  • At Last, a Little Bit of Studio Stuff

    Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 02:42 pm in studio, Projects, book art, miniature books, pharmaceutical art, alternative book materials

    Finally, I've been able to spend a little bit of time here and there in the studio. After a longish period of not being able to do much, I'm trying to get caught up on some projects. For one, I'm completing a couple more copies of the Literary Cure (...

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