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Seller: Erzebet YellowBoy

Offered: Book art by Erzebet Yellowboy.

Five authors graciously allowed Erzebet YellowBoy to use their poems in the creation of four pieces of book art especially for Magick4Terri. Erzebet uses bone and other natural media in her book assemblages, collecting bits from the wilds, from her own garden and from things found by her friends. Erzebet's art resides in private collections around the world and can be found in the working collection of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Hers are books you might find lying on the leaf-strewn ground in a dark wood. For Magick4Terri, the foxes set the theme. 

This piece is based on "The Girl with Two Skins" by Catherynne M. Valente.

The poem was first published in Goblin Fruit, Spring 2008 and is still available to read online.

Distressed, coffee-stained pages have been bound to the rib bone of a fox with faux sinew. Dried flowers, binder's 'linen', leaves and a mirror in which the fox might reflect upon herself adorn the piece. The frame has been stained mahogany, and the piece itself has been backed with lokta paper.

The size of the piece is 7.25 inches wide by 5.25 inches high. It is ready to hang and has been signed and dated on the back by the artist. Will ship to anywhere in the world.

Opening bid: $50

Auction closes at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, December 15th 2011

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