Made: 2010 Materials: Wood, branches, clay, fibers. Approx. 26"x 10" x 3"
2010 Beyond the first door.
2010 Beyond the second door. Each book is hand bound.

2010 Materials: wood, metal, wire, clay, fibers. Approx: 8" x 4.5" x 2.5"

2010 Side.

2010 All the bits opened.

2010 Inside the top drawer.

2010 Within the second (bottom) drawer.

2010 Inside the very top.
When there is doubt...
Doubt and desertion, it always seems to be the only things that prevent our dreams or ambitions from taking place. They block off our confidence-leaving our feeble minds consumed with doubt left to attempt to fulfill these dreams. Naturally...nothing gets done. No dream gets discovered. That alone leaves us bare. Without a dream, we're stuck. With our doubt, we can't have hope. And without this hope, our dreams lay abandoned...
ORIGIN OF THE TREE USE:
I walk along, exploring if you will, on a path overgrown with briars and weeds, in the middle of a dying forest. The leaves lay crumbling on the ground before me. My eyes trace up the trunk of a tree to the outreaching branches-bare as can be. I shudder even though there is no wind. All those trees without their leaves-it's so similar to how humans are without their hope....
ORIGIN OF BOOK USE:
I can't help but compare the innards of a book to a person's dreams. I feel that inside each and everybook, in one way or another, a piece of a dream is present. Each page contains new hope. Each sentence makes a statement of confidence. The book needs these sentences to flourish...just as we need our dreams to thrive.