Handmade Books, Crafts & Restorations

Vanishing Point: A Möbius Atlas

Handmade book in a box. Mixed-media Möbius book with magnetic fastening; reads on both sides and in both directions.

Written work about driving back and forth across the country in form of a möbius strip, the form echoing the essay’s elliptical content.


Things to Do with a Rock the Shape of Your Ear

handmade book in a box with a rock



Ode to the Yellow-Rumped Warbler

by Merrill Feitell & Michelle Garduno

handmade book

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Secret Identity Kits

Mixed media; labels applied to manila envelopes containing relevant paperwork and goods.

Made for exclusive sale by 826NYC and Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co., a nonprofit education center and superhero outfitter.


Skyline

Small city skyline narrative. Story on wood scraps.


Concepts in Science: A Beginning Vocabulary for the Science of a Mid-Life Crisis

Mixed-media book

Included in Shhh!: 20 Artists on Changes in Culture & Democracy at the Pasadena HastingsBranch Library

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Paintings

Learning to paint by way of painting my dog. Alas, all paintings were destroyed in the January 2025 Eaton Fire. These are the only existing photos.



Restoration of three 1957 Heritage dressers