“Butterfly in the sky,
I can go twice as high!
Take a look,
It’s in a book,
A reading rainbow!”
Reading Rainbow, (1997)
After finishing the first semester of my senior thesis, I made a process book that was heavily inspired both by the bookbinding class I was taking at the time and children’s classic pop-up novels. I wanted to continue my previous studies in collage, while incorporating a way of thinking in flat space I hadn’t previously considered. I enjoyed working in book format, and wanted to see a full spread.
With this in mind, I began an interactive junk journal, which intersects somewhere between a diary, a novel in verse, and a children’s book. Each spread has at least one interactive element included within it. Some elements include pop-outs, wheels, 3-dimensional elements, flaps, textures, and more.
As with pervious work, these spreads are made using recycled materials; vintage magazines, photo albums, thrifted goods, and even trash are all on the table to be repurposed into collage work. The spreads are also all bound together in a still-working sketchbook.
