Laura has been making hand made books since 1987. She creates both unique and short run artist books. Her books explore the intimate relationship that is instigated by the close interaction and the ability to touch and hold artwork. Interacting with textures, images and the tactile encounter of turning pages is an experience unique to the format of the book.
This book is made from rejected collograph and polymer photogravure prints. The collographs have chine-collé of paper dolls. The prints are hand torn and hinged together to make an accordion book
This book is made from reject linocuts. Some of them have been altered with colored pencil and/or ink. The pages are hand torn and hinged together in the single sided accordion book. The cover has an
This is the book that was made for the Leiffing Through History altar I created in honor of my grandad for Dia De Los Muertos. The images are photographs he took while stationed in Hawaii during WWII
It started with a challenge, "Make a book from napkins". The folded white obiquitous objects become a unique pocket book. Vintage flash cards, retro fabric covers, and an actual spoon in the binding
This book was created from the waste product of building some large set pieces for Path of the Forgotten. Even though all the books I used were donated especially to be destroyed or rescued from the
This hand made book features moving swirling images from the 2007 Day of the Dead parade in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood. Waxed paper covers surround digital photography on matt paper with
La Sonámbula is a coptic stitch book featuring images made with my Holga pinhole camera. My goal was to tell a story without using words. To accomplish this, both black and white and color images
With encouragement from my friend, Yabette I have created these "blank" journals in the spirit of my own journals. In fact I have kept book #1 in this short series of 13 total books. Although each one
This Jacob's Ladder book features a collage on one side and text down the back. Both the text and the images are designed to be read from both directions horizontally
A series of four hand made books featuring hand made paper. Each paper is created to emphasize one of the four elements earth, air, fire, and water. The earth book has soft dark brown pages and a