My felt book is an exploration of process and subject – some pages are directly drawn from my childhood drawings and writing. For other pages, I played with combining multiple steps to create things, such as the bee and wasp pockets. 

These are animals I found outside on my walks, already dead. I collected them to photograph with my usb microscope (like this), putting origami paper underneath to get a pop of color. I printed out my favorite images to transfer them onto some scrap fabric using matte medium, which I ultimately sewed onto the felt pages as pockets. 

They contain some other things that I found outside – clovers and flowers – that I put through my mom’s laminator and cut out into little chips. 

Another page is a calendar of pockets. For several years, I was recording my daily color (among other things) from this daily horoscope app. I matched the color of each pocket to the color of the day (according to the app) and cut out a paper circle to go in each pocket, writing the number of the corresponding date and coloring the edge with my associated color for the day of the week. The calendar is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise to fit onto the page. I was always curious to see if anyone could identify this as a calendar. 

I played in several other ways with my internal color associations (according to my synesthesia). There is a pair of pages where I embroidered some things I found written in my sketchbook, but instead of stitching letters, I stitched mostly circles in the color of the letter. I did stitch some words to provide a sort of key, almost like a cryptogram hint. 

My favorite page is where I sewed laminated clovers and flowers into the page as little windows. 

At the time I made this book (spring of 2015) I was convinced that I would go onto college and major in Fiber Arts, so I came up with this fiber project, but I ended up in Interactive Arts instead. I find it so funny that I created this felt book as a way to get people to touch the work in order to view it. I was always interested in the element of interaction, even before I realized it.