2024

Materials: wood, plywood, masonite, cardboard

Dimensions: 8ft x 6ft x 12ft

• Human-scale, inhabitable tunnel book, created for an artist book assignment

• Created in the likeness of an extruded submarine window

• Rests closed (20in thick) and invites viewers to open the tunnel book (to 12ft deep) and walk through each page the extruded submarine window

• Viewers begin in the outside, unknown ocean before embarking on a journey climbing through the pages into the book, where they become embedded into the book

  • After traversing the final page and symbolically stepping through common childhood symbol of the picture book, one is invited to step into a cardboard box that calls to the familiar childhood imaginative fort where one is severed from outside view

  • In the box and out of sight of the world’s judgmental eye, one can play freely and walk through the box to a viewing area where they can view those on the outside who chose not to play

• One then must journey back out of the book into the ocean and take these lessons of play into the real world

• Huge thank you to Charlotte Pfenning for providing the painting framed at the end of the book!