Box Number Three

Box number 3 is created from a discarded cutlery box I found on the ground when the flea market was packing up in Paris. As if I didn't have enough boxes already...I had bought a book about insects (all in French) that afternoon which was destined for the project as the binding was very loose and it was only 2 Euros. Everything else on the market was so shockingly overpriced I thought about driving over there with my next boot load of junk and making my fortune. 

So, here it is....Box Number Three incorporating "Encyclopedie illustree des insects". Celebrating my escape to Paris. 

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Box Number Two

The second box to be created.

It is made from an old sunglasses box and has been transformed 

using the remnants of a much loved but very sad copy of 

"The Senses, Instincts and Intelligence of Animals with Special Reference to Insects"

by

The Right Honourable Sir John Lubbock

I found the fantastic illustration of the jelly fish in the book and started to think 

about under the seaness.

The scientific name of a jellyfish being 'Medusa' 

I married the myth with the box.

Medusa could only be slain by looking in a mirror otherwise 

she would turn onlookers to stone.

The legend says that when Medusa was slain by Perseus, 

he laid her head on the shore and her blood

turned the seaweed to coral.

Box Number One

Box 1.

Title: Inner Space

Box inspired by and created with a battered copy of Patrick Moore "Guide to the Stars" and was begun after a particularly challenging yoga practise.

The text reads

"If you could measure the distance found by crossing the water

shiftshut still the third other eye

and you will see direction

your clarity apparent"

All of the boxes in this project will be created using my collection of "can't bear to take to the charity shop" old books that really, really need to have a new lease of life because of their sad and lonely condition. And using my collection of boxes that have been teetering and tottering on my desk for months. 

One box dedicated to one book.

Watch this space. But not for too long, I'm sure you've got things to do.

Coming Soon

Box 2: 'The Senses, Instincts and Intelligence of Animals with Special Reference to Insects'

by The Right Honourable Sir John Lubbock.

˙Boxes and Promises˙

I made this box today to house/nest my friend Jane's birthday gift. 

I've been collecting empty boxes for a while now and they are piling up and I have to use them before they disappear under landscapes of dust. I would like to say that I am going to make a different box every few days and post it here as a project. 

If I say it then I might actually do it.

I like putting myself under pressure.

Especially now the builders are working here behind the hedge.