Sometimes in order for something to get better first it needs to get a lot worse. Before I
could heal this book I needed to take the destruction much further than the vandal did,
who slashed through the cover and first few pages of the book. I started tearing the book
apart until I felt I had gone far enough that I could then start to stitch it back together and
make it something good again. Since I am a book artist I wanted the book to remain a
bookâjust in a different form. In putting it back together I choose to focus on the most
human element of the book which is the inscription on the title page from the author, a
San Francisco resident. I moved the inscription to the cover and used part of it as my title:
With Good Warm Wishes. Nothing was wasted in re-creating the book. I used all the
pieces that I tore off and very little was added: only thread, glue, tea and wax. I hope I
took the book from worse to better; from wounded to stitched; from healing to healed.
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