The Houston Book Arts Group collaborated to make a pop-up book sharing the group’s experiences of Hurricane Ike.
View a video of the book in action!
Eight members of the Houston Book Arts Group collaborated on the pop-up book Hurricane as an artistic response to having endured Hurricane Ike in September 2008.
Experiencing Hurricane Ike was frightening, grueling, yet compelling, and we found catharsis in creating a book that used pop-up mechanisms often associated with children’s entertainment to reveal the destruction and drama associated with such a deadly storm.
Paper engineer Bruce Foster’s presentation of his work to our group inspired us to use pop-up structures to tell our tales. After the group decided on the size and paper to be used, each collaborator designed and built one or more pages and we refined the designs, perfected the pop-up mechanisms, and bound the edition of twelve as a group.
Working on this project gave us even greater respect for paper engineers and their pop-up constructions. The medium is complicated yet versatile and deserves further exploration.
Participating artists include:
- Darcy Curtin
- Lane G. Devereux
- Kristin Aaker Flanagan
- Amanda York Focke
- Myssie Forrest Light
- Nancy Luton
- Linda Ann Stelljes
- Marjorie Silverstein
Paper, plastic, metal, binder’s board, leatherette covers, silver foil stamped title. 10 pages. 7.25 x 5.75 x 2 inches. Edition of 12.
Not for sale.
Hurricane is featured in a juried exhibit of movable books in Portland, OR at 23 Sandy Gallery, Fall 2010.
