Kiki and her sisters

Kiki Smith family photos from the PBS series ART21, Season Two, Episode One, STORIES, 2003.
Kiki and her sisters, Bebe and Seton, building models for their father, the sculptor Tony Smith. "We made, mostly, paper models for him, like thousands of tetrahedron and octahedron flattened models, and then we would sit and put them together, after school, every day."

The Junior Scientist

The Junior Scientist (Science in Action for Boys and Girls 2) by N.F. Newbury & H.A. Armstrong, University of London Press, 1962

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Second Hand Records by Suzie Smith, 2007

(silkscreen on found record jackets)
visit her here.

a pocket how to do it

Creative Papier Maché by Betty Lorrimar, Studio Vista, London, 1971

THIS IS NOT THE END

from Arm in Arm (A Collection of Connections, Endless Tales, Reiterations, and other Echolalia) by Remy Charlip, Parents' Magazine Press, 1969
previously

N.J.P.

self portrait, 1974

from Nam June Paik: Video Time - Video Space, Toni Stooss & Thomas Kellein, Harry A. Abrams Inc. , NY, 1993

related

MUNARI: I LIBRI

Munari's Books by Giorgio Maffei, Corraini Edizioni, 2008 (english edition)

A highly recommended survey of Bruno Munari's book production from 1929-1999. (A gift from P+W. T H A N K S ! ! !)

COSMOS EVOLUTION

The Immeasurable Equation by Sun Ra, Infinity Inc./Saturn Research, 1972 (unused/uncut book cover)

carving a head

from Sculpture in Wood by Ferelyth & Bill Wills, D,D,&C, Vancouver, 1975

Daniel Barrow

Daniel Barrow won the Sobey Award!

Please, if you ever get the chance, go see Daniel perform. I could never say enough.

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Jimmie, the youngest errand boy by Gladys O. Johnson, illustrated by June Talarczyk, T.Denison & Co., Minneapolis, 1967

Home Library

Around The World in 2,000 Pictures, Doubleday, 1954 (1959) with homemade cardpocket and card ( "Due--Nov., Nov., Nov., Nov.,..." ) Thanks to MML for finding this and letting me take it home.

whittling

Whittling and Woodcarving by E.J. Tangerman, 1936 (Dover, 1962)

(From a small cache of woodcarving books I found at a thrift store recently. Unfortunately, they're some of the most putrid smelling books I've bought in a while. Any ideas how to freshen up basement-sour books?)

1908-2008

notes for a painting ( in collaboration with Neil Farber) 2008

the only words worth remembering

Buckskin Stallion/Catfish Song/Nothin'/I'll be here in the morning/...

Townes Van Zandt: A Private Concert, DVD,Varese Sarabande, 2004

Shot at 3AM in a Holiday Inn on Houston, 1988.
also here

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(binding illustration from) The Three Robbers by Tomi Ungerer, Atheneum, 1962 (1977)

library bindings