Nash, Korzer-Robinson, and Accordion bindings.

Catherine Nash is a book artist, sculpturer, artist, papermaker, and teacher in Tuscon, Arizona who has studied papermaking in Europe & Japan. On the left is her book Nothing - Niente - Nada. She has a unique style and more of her books can be seen at her website: CatherineNash.com. She teaches papermaking, drawing, and mixed media in the great inland desert that is Arizona.

I really like what she does with the idea of 'book' stretching it out and bending the idea until you have to ask, is it a book? And the more you ask, the more your mind is accepting it as not only a book, but an artistic book.

On your right we have Our Lady of Tuscany, a book by Alexander Korzer-Robinson who uses cut paper and altered books as an arty statement. His work is intricate, exciting, and pushes old books in new directions - so much so that the cover might be ripped right into the story. No matter, it's intriguing.

And finally we get to my current goal: the accordion book. I'm thinking of making an accordion book of six short short stories that I wrote recently. The shortest of the six is one page. Actually, two of the stories are one page. If you print it out on A-4 (almost 8.5 x 11 inch) paper. But if it's on a quarter of that, the story will be four pages. I'm thinking of putting all six stories in an accordion binding. Just to see what it looks like and if I can make a reasonable accordion binding. Goals, we gotta have 'em.