Building Books 2 – Twiggs Gallery, 2024
You Walk Through a Door…
Mixed media, injet prints of found original photos
6.75 x 6.75″
What building a book is like…. You walk through a door and start to build something with a friend, family, a life, a memory… that is what building a book is like. It becomes a friend, family, your life and holds those memories.
Building Books 1 – University of Southern Maine, 2023
Postcards from Italy
Modified Shrigley binding invented by Benjamin Elbel with slipcase
Vintage postcards collected in Italy during WW2, photos and newspaper clipping related to 39th Combat Engineers, Canson paper, book cloth
7 w x 4.5 h x 1.5” d – closed
11 h x 14 w x 4” d – open
NFS
I am a collector of found objects, photos, and vintage paper that I use as inspiration for my work by incorporating them into books and using them to convey a story. My art is an eclectic mix of my life reflecting where I have been, and where I want to go. Each piece is almost like a time capsule of my life and others, a memory, and a story I want to tell. I am constantly exploring different techniques and bindings, finding ways to combine them that reflect the materials used or the people my story is about. Taking something that was once discarded or from the past and capturing it in a book is my ultimate goal. To be able to hold that work and interact with it so it becomes an object for the senses to experience.
Anne McMillan – Laconia, NH
