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#Miniature Monday

Pandora's Box by  Peter & Donna Thomas

This is part of a series focusing on a small fraction of the lovely artists books by Peter and Donna Thomas!

Today's item is a scroll on a wooden frame that the makers compare to Pandora's Box-easy to open, but harder to put back! (Don't worry- I got it rolled back up again safely.)

When unrolled, it features a quotation from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five, which begins: "I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres." The text is on a backdrop of green and blue linoleum cuts by Donna Thomas.

Peter and Donna Thomas are "book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work both collaboratively and individually; letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books." They have made over 100 limited edition books, often with Peter making the paper, and Donna doing the illustrations.

Check out more of Donna and Peter's books at Uiowa here.

--Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student

Last one

Powerful and fun 7a

Someone else did it without matching in the crimp after the pocket (or at least did that move, I didn't see them complete the full problem yet) but I couldn't do that. Maybe a future project.

We out here hiking

I loved seeing these in San Francisco and Berkeley. I have seen them elsewhere but not in such great numbers

little free libraries

Jumy-M Let’s go for a drink / 酒呑んでけ

Books of the Week:

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia This one was a bit slow at first but the ideas at the end involving alchemical immortality and mushrooms are thought provoking.

Kudzu - The Vine to Love or Hate - by Roy W. Beck and W. L. Brantley

Kudzu Is edible and a potential biofuel.