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  CONTAMINANT

  Nicholas Austin-Wakefield, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  CONTAMINANT is a double-sided accordion book that depicts how contaminants in the recycling create more trash and a negative environmental impact. It does so through the narratives of two characters (on opposing sides of the book), one who is an avid recycler and the other who is not. The story has two parts, beginning with the female character and finishing with the male character. After the female character throws out her recycling, the male character throws his ice cream into the bin, which contaminated the whole bag. At the end of the book, a janitor is seen throwing yet another recycling bag into the trash bin, which demonstrates how little is actually recycled. There are also numerous ads, commercials, and posters within the story to show that even as so many issues occur in the world, there are still people who are oblivious to the consequences of their actions.

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  The Little Things

  Roxy Bridges, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A short journey through a house, meant to try and appreciate the little things.

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  How to be in a Coma

  Emma Capps, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  “How to be in a Coma” examines and universalizes my own experience in a 2-month-long induced coma in 2015. This book allows readers a glimpse into the experience of a comatose child, as well as inspire action to improve the lives of chronically ill children. During the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic - when record numbers of patients are being admitted to ICUs and put into induced comas - I wanted to offer up my own experience in order to provide solace, understanding, and a glimmer of hope.

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  Zone: Apollinaire, Simpson, Chang

  Naya Chang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  After studying early 20th-century avant-garde movements, I created this artist book as a contribution to the avant-garde dialogic tradition in which visual artists and writers respond to and enhance each other’s work, both contemporaneously and retrospectively. My book is an aesthetic vessel for the long poem "Zone," which was written in 1913 by French avant-gardist Guillaume Apollinaire. The literary challenge of translating “Zone" has been attempted by many poets, and Louis Simpson’s version is the one I chose for my book. "Zone" is a travel poem, with words that wander from observation to recollection and often seemingly do not make sense. I reflected the structure and tone of the poem in the structure and typefaces of my book. Particularly inspired by the artist book collaboration between poet Blaise Cendrars and artist Sonia Delaunay (who were contemporaries of Apollinaire), I drew on Delaunay’s bright painting style—simultanism—to render the imagery in the pages. Apollinaire/Simpson’s words directed my painting, but the overall effect is nonrepresentational.

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  My Grandmother

  Jinghong Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  I made this star book in memories of my grandmother. In total it contains 18 panels, signifying the 18 years she spent with me. Each panel captures a fragments of my memory about her, with the Chinese description on the side. English translation is provided in a separated sheet that can be found inside the box.

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  8th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2022 Poster

  Special Collections and Fleet Library

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  8th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2022 Virtual Reception

  Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Lois Harada

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  Siblings

  Julie Egresitz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Siblings have a "Big" and a "Little" dynamic in which they learn from each other as they grow. I'd like to convey the synonymous relationship between young siblings: one copies the other. Once a Little sibling grows into a Big, the circle goes again--eventually teaching another Little how to be a Big.

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  How does it feel to have clouds swoop in your face

  Zimu Fang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The book is on Luke Howard's classification of clouds in 1802 and the ungraspable nature of clouds.

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  Riace Bronzes Recovered 200 Meters from Shore

  Itzhak Fant, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The Riace Bronzes are two six-feet tall full-sized Greek sculptures which were recovered off the southern coast of Italy in the 1970's. In this book, their discovery is reimagined when a typical day of fishing is transformed into a romantic encounter. The bronze figure, who has spent two thousand years at sea, is a parallel figure to the fishermen, whose lives and work are the true subject of the book.

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  Facts About Lakes

  Saraphina Forman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This piece focuses on the relationship of two siblings as they age. It explores the nature of time, memory, and place through fragmentation and the motif of a lake. Through elements that break out of the traditional short story format, such as screenshots, photography, and annotation, the role of the reader and the limits of stories are called into question.

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  Torchic

  Evan Goldhagen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Narrative explores motifs of childhood nostalgia in relation to past and recurring trauma as a means of coping.

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  February 14, 2018

  Yadelis Gomez, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  On February 14, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was attacked by a former student with a legally obtained gun. Seventeen lives were taken that day, yet this incident becomes overlooked in the ever growing list of school shootings in America.

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  (endangered) Animals on Earth A to Z

  Alex Hogue, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Mimicking the style and format of popular children's alphabet books, I wanted to draw the viewer into the book assuming it is simply a lighthearted picture book about animals, one animal for each letter of the alphabet. However, as the reader flips through the book, the animals begin deteriorating the alphabet progresses until all that is left is animal bones at letter P for "polar bear". The alphabet is cut short to represent the loss of endangered species due to human neglect and abuse of animals and the planet. Then, letter U represents "us" to end the book on a startling note and highlight how human error and carelessness ultimate hurts not only other species but ourselves as well. I wanted to exaggerate this dark progression as the reader flips through the alphabet to shock the reader and defy the common expectations of a children's picture book. This progression in the way the book begins and the note on which it ends is also highlighted in the contrast between the front and back covers as well.

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  Black Water

  Chenchen Hsieh, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Black Water is a book about Tohoku earthquake and tsunami happened in Japan in 2011. The book is intended to recreate tsunami and capture the incident.

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  Clocks in Space

  Pei-Jung Hsieh, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Inspired by GPS as a source of accurate time, the book opens 360 degree to resemble the earth with numerous satellites orbiting around.

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  ●

  Qingyu Huang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  It is a story about ●. I wrote the plot starring at the mirror in the small bathroom in East.

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  The Petting Zoo

  Madelyn Kieh, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A book displaying the dichotomy between the cutesy, wholesome appearance of modern zoos, and the shocking, sinister reality that is hidden from the public's eyes.

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  Click

  Nadia Kossman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Click is a book by an adult for children. This adult doesn't really know what children are interested in but she attempts to connect with them through a curiosity about language. It remains to be seen whether children will relate to her specific interests, but hopefully it encourages them to seek out their own.

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  Nurdles

  Sharon Lee, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This book is about micro-plastics and how they affect the ocean ecosystem. The mass consumption of plastic materials end up being largely harmful to the ocean and beach-life.

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  A Modern Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood

  Robbie Li, Kennice Pan, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  How might we innovate on the way to tell familiar stories? In this retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood,” the artists seek to create something that instills a sense of reward and satisfaction as users interact with the pieces to complete the narrative. Can you figure out how to play with it?

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  Rainbow Book

  Perri Litke, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Rainbow Book is the result of hours of papermaking. The fibers of each sheet were cooked, cleaned, beaten, dyed, and pulled by me. I dyed three different clumps of fiber the primary colors, and then mixed them as I formed the sheets, resulting in every sheet being a different shade.

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  WANT TO BE A PIG

  Yinjia(Elaine) Liu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Enjoy it! Wish you happy everyday.

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  Ghost Bikes

  Elizabeth Long, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Made during a Summer 2021 fellowship at No Reply Press in Portland, Oregon. This limited edition book documents the sites of local memorials and “ghost bikes” (white-painted bikes erected at the sites of bicyclist fatalities). There are two illustrations for each site, paired with a street sign demarcating the location of each accident. The intention was to recognize the sites of tragedies that often go unproved or ignored. I tried to show the love and loss expressed in these small memorials. This was hand-printed using a traditional letterpress, as well as being hand-bound. The cover is handmade paste paper. The title is hand-embossed gilt.