The Tunnel book is an actual type of pop-up book. This one was 6′ x 6′, ”open’. The front panels were on wheels, and could fold out, the back was anchored in place with a heavy steel base and an old glass door I found in the street. It contained graphite drawings on paper and cardboard. The panels were conncected along an expanding steel linkage as a spine. The outside cover was heavy paper folded exactly like old-fashioned camera bellows. The idea was that the viewer would be able to turn it and drag it to get different perspectives on the drawings contained inside. the interior, lit with led’s.
It was presented at Ateliers Jean-Brillant in 2010.
2008 – The ‘nautilus’ was also a book: 12, muslin-covered, heavy board ‘pages’ bound together by a single, 3′ long steel rivet.
The inside contained graphite drawings on a blood red background you could only see by crawling right inside. ‘Open’ it was 5 feet in diameter, between 3 feet to 10” tall.