Day 1, February 24th

All of us - teachers and me as instructor, too! - began by creating a "shadow box" book using the artist, Joseph Cornell as a reference.  A couple of great websites I referenced when creating my lesson plans were:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cornell/
http://www.josephcornellbox.com/
The first is great for a brief description of who Cornell was and images of his work in full color.  The second website goes more in depth, giving a bit more history...
So... 
We began by taking apart our books,
each of a different genre:
personal books, belonging to ancestral architecture fans,
new, Wobegon Days given new life,
random and found - the letter "B",
children's encyclopedias becoming a cyclone of torn paper,
math equations turned on end - so many 
books - well, it did not matter what they were, 
as they began to take on a new shape, a new "Home."


Torn, ripped, cut and deconstructed.
Hollowed books slowly being re-filled again,
keeping the book shape
yet memorialized in new form.