#reclaimed materials

Welcome to my recent fixation: book-making! I have been following instructions from Sue Doggett's Book Arts while navigating secondhand materials. All of the fabric, paper, and twine comes from the thrift.

Birds dismantling hostile architecture posts

The Smithsonian Magazine reported on a research paper about this: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crows-and-magpies-snatch-anti-bird-spikes-to-build-their-nests-180982546

The research (PDF)

The article links to this tweet by an author of the study, Auke-Florian Hiemstra...

And here is a magpie nest in a tree, photographed by the same guy...

There are more cute photos and adorable comments in this Audubon article about the paper: https://www.audubon.org/magazine/apparently-magpies-and-crows-are-using-anti-bird-spikes-make-their-nests

...Cockatoos have fun too!

Some of my favorite projects are the ones made as gifts. This patchwork tote was stitched together from entirely thrifted, reclaimed textiles, pieces that had already lived a life before becoming part of something new.

A hand hooked rabbit

“A Wolf At The Table”

Relief print on fabric, the grate from the crawl space of my house (cut in two and resized using garden shears and wire), film negatives, more wire.

‘Walk’ 2024

Hand tufted rug

Secondhand and reclaimed yarn on hessian

Im so happy with this piece and it’s currently on exhibit in an art gallery!