{"id":2769,"date":"2020-09-09T20:42:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T03:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2020-09-09T20:44:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T03:44:10","slug":"tunnel-books-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/09\/tunnel-books-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Who doesn’t love tunnel books?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I love tunnel books, and have since I was a child. About a year and a half ago, Bound & Lettered<\/em> (Vol. 16, No. 2<\/a>) published an interesting article about a very cool tunnel book by Mary Conley. My friend Rose made a beautiful tunnel book using the instructions laid out in the article, and I began thinking about tunnel books some more. But so far I haven’t acted on them … because, as the saying goes, ” life is short, and art is long”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A tunnel book I made in art school with a text by Ann Fadiman.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Back in art school, though, in about 2006, I made a tunnel book from a drawing of a child on some steps in the shuk in Jerusalem. And later, for another class, I had a blast making a tunnel book of butterflies with text from a essay by Ann Fadiman, “Collecting Nature”, from her collection of essays entitled At Large and at Small<\/em>. Oh wait, I’ve blogged about this before<\/a>, just a mere 13 years ago. How could I have forgotten? \ud83d\ude42 And here<\/a>, wherein I claimed that I’m not a fan of tunnel books! Re-reading that post, I still have some of the same opinions about their drawbacks, but it seems that I’ve warmed up to them in the past decade. And I really did love them as a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This guy has such fun making a tunnel book from a stack of identical postcards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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