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December 15, 2011 by Nathalie Foy
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Nathalie Foy 
Nathalie, I didn’t stop to listen to your Beatrice Coron Ted talk post on her work with paper but I’m a little terrified by all the holiday-period book-repurposing I saw this year. Books carved, folded, torn, turned into trees, sculpture, signs, toys — it strikes me as fetishization of an object that’s starting to lose it’s everyday currency and this notion drives me to panic. Do you have a nice bracing corrective view for me? Hope so! Cheers, Carol
Oh, no! That’s not a good panic to have. I don’t know if it’s a bracing corrective, but I see all of that book repurposing as a very exciting form of creativity. I am not an artist, but art excites and inspires me. To me, book art is a celebration of books and what’s inside them. I don’t believe that books are dying, so to see them repurposed does not worry me. I’ve had such a wonderful couple of years discovering books in new ways (through the internet, through my children) that I feel in the midst of my own personal Reading Renaissance. Book art only makes me happier to be an avid reader. There is so much bookish excellence out there still to discover!