As far as older artwork goes, this is one of my favorites. It's a book titled "The Capricious Mole" that I made about two years ago for a Paper Making class at UCSB.
The subject is pseudosciences such as Phrenology that theorize that the personality traits of a person can be discovered by the shape of your skull or the placement of moles on your face. In simpler terms, it was the science of judging others based on looks. Seems archaic, but we still do it in some ways, right?
The paper is all hand made; the book pages are pressed from somewhere around 55% hemp 45% cotton pulp made in a machine beater. The colored paper was made in my blender out of scrap paper and the book was bound using the simpler version of the Japanese Stab Binding technique.
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