About this piece:

Teaching is a panorama panel book (based on one of Hedi Kyle’s structures), housed in custom box with various biological specimens. Part of the Lovely and Amazing series, this compartmentalized box holds the book alongside the skeletal remains of a small rodent in a sealed compartment. The book pages are laser etched fabric mounted on card stock. The book panels are backed with both inkjet prints of photographs taken by Ruth in the 1940’s and nature book page remnants overlaid with various specimens and laser etched acrylic. Recessed into the front cover is a beaver tooth, protected with etched mica. On the underside of the box lid is a lens held in place with etched book board. The top lid of this box has text on fabric scanned from Ruth’s scrapbook and transferred.

Materials:

book board, shellac, acrylic paint, wax, fabric, laser toner, extruded & cast acrylic , paper, glass lens, mica, linen tape, small rodent skeleton, beaver tooth, digital ink, insect remains, plant seeds, feathers