About this piece:

Part of an ongoing series Endangered Volume II uses a partial skin shed from a bull snake, rattlesnake vertebrae and rattlesnake rib bones. I’ve never been afraid of snakes and delight in the sensation of a snake slithering along bare skin.

Bound in a long stitch over tyvek straps with an exposed spine, the three thick, rigid pages of this book along with the front cover include bits of snake bones and skin protected with overlays of mica. The front and back covers use a split-board attachment.

The book rests atop a plexi-glazed tray containging a bull snake shed from one of several snakes my great-aunt kept. The paper lining the tray bottom was made during a workshop with Mary Ellen Long in Telluride and has another snake shed embedded in it. The prints used in the text block are handmade sheets using pulp painting.

Materials:

paper, ink, book cloth, book board, plexiglass, acrylic, tyvek, linen thread, snake bones and skin shed, mica