BookEnvirons

A BookEnviron is an artists’ book that by concept and scale creates an immersion experience for the viewer who enters to investigate the space shaped by the book. This series of large viewer interactive environments explores the theme of spaces set aside for contemplation.

  • large installation of handmade paper with artists
    BookEnviron: Herron
  • Swope BookEnviron artists' gallery talk
    Twofold Path
  • large handmade paper installation suspended from 20 foot ceiling
    BookEnviron: Georgetown
  • large handmade paper suspended from the ceiling in an ascending graceful curve
    BookEnvirons: Judson
  • handmade paper circles with hand shapes
    Inner Circles 2018
  • two large handmade paper installations suspended from the ceiling
    Memphis BookEnvirons
  • ten handmade paper pages, each six feet tall suspended from the ceiling
    Eureka Magnolia
  • overall view of handmade paper installation in art gallery
    Garden Archway
  • large handmade paper installation suspended from the ceiling
    BookEnviron: Quincy
  • large handmade paper installation suspended from ceiling
    BookEnviron: Wentworth
  • large handmade paper suspended from the ceiling in an ascending and descending graceful curve
    BookEnviron: Niche
  • large handmade paper installation suspended from ceiling
    BookEnvirons: Iowa City
  • large handmade paper installation suspended from ceiling
    BookEnviron: Dual Pathway
  • large handmade paper installation suspended from ceiling
    BookEnviron: The Richland Installation
  • large handmade paper installation suspended from ceiling in spiral
    BookEnviron: Virden
  • large round handmade paper pages suspended from ceiling
    BookEnviron: Inner Circle
  • artists with installation of handmade paper suspended from the ceiling in a graceful S curve
    Magnolia Scroll Environ
  • large handmade paper installation suspended from ceiling
    BookEnviron: The Chamber
  • large handmade paper suspended from the ceiling in an ascending graceful curve
    Eureka Magnolia BookEnviron II
  • large handmade paper suspended in the windows
    Garden Archway: Art Saint Louis Installation
  • large handmade paper installation ssuspended from the ceiling
    Spire: A Spiritual Journey-
  • large handmade paper installation suspended from the ceiling
    Spire: A Spiritual Journey-Freeport
  • large handmade paper installation suspended from the ceiling
    Garden Archway BookEnviron
  • large handmade paper suspended from the ceiling in an ascending graceful spiral
    Magnolia Spiral BookEnviron

The works for which we coined the term “BookEnviron” grew out of a brainstorming session raising the question, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful to create a book large enough to walk into?”

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