A wooden box, opens slowly with wood grain against wood grain, to reveal the soft white of handmade paper. The pages are bound with paper thread and each of the nine books are connected, one to the next, with the same thread. The natural smell, the feathery edges, the gray black sumi ink scrawl words across the pages, paint images, as one reads the poems.
“The Wanderer,” “Silent Cry,” “The Lonely Willow,” “Lives of the Leaves (3 Parts),” The Deep of Winter,” “Lifeless,” and “In Conclusion”. A collection of poems written by Megan over a decade.
The story of these poems reflects the climactic plot rise of a narrative and intends to convey a sense of winter, the traditional season for making paper. The books have a very large sensory impact, the tactile feel of the handmade paper, the sound of the pages being turned, the faint smell of the fiber, the soft off-white of the paper and the gray to black of the ink. Beyond this, the books are bound together with lengths of paper thread, both indicating the order in which they are intended to be read and creating a shared community experience when multiple people interact with the collection simultaneously.
