This is a loosely organized album of books, collections, and curiousites I’ve documented throughout my career as a conservation professional. Maybe you will find them interesting as well!
Previous repairs…
Observations on the attempts by previous patrons, owners, or conservators to repair books; the results varied in success.
This was a book that was damaged by a dog, and “fixed” with packing tape by a patron. 
Things I’ve found in books…
Insertions, inclusions, inscriptions, and/or “interesting” organic materials discovered between the covers.
I don’t know who she is, but she sure looks like she’s having fun!
Art I’ve appreciated
Artworks, in museums, on campus, and in the wild, that I have appreciated enough to photograph or film.
In the Narita airport’s Origami museum. 
In the Narita airport’s Origami museum. 
Chris Fraser: Looking Back 
Chris Fraser: Looking Back 
Kelly Richardson: Tales on the Horizon 
Rosie in beans, as seen at the Arizona State Fair. 
Venus in beans, as seen at the Arizona State Fair. 
A vase in a niche once occupied by a public telephone.
The videos below are of pieces that were displayed as part of the “Stigma” exhibit at ASU’s Harry Wood Gallery during March 2016.
Books I’ve found in paintings and sculpture…
Whenever I visit musuems, I like to take pictures of the books I’ve seen portrayed in various artworks.
Paintings from the collection of the University of Arizona Art Museum. I took these photographs in May 2016.
Saint Dominic and Saint Thomas Aquinas, ca. 1480, painted by (Followers of) Sano di Pietro. Tempera on wood panel. In the collection of the University of Arizona Art Museum. 
Detail of men ripping books, from “Christ Among the Doctors” by Maestro Bartolome, 1480-88
Trip to the Norton Simon Museum in California, November 2016.
The Penitence of St. Jerome by Albrecth Bouts. 1520. In the collection of the Norton Simon Museum. Photographed November 2016. 
The Penitence of St. Jerome by Albrecth Bouts. 1520. In the collection of the Norton Simon Museum. Photographed November 2016. 
Saints Paul and Frediano, c. 1483 Filippino Lippi (Italian, 1457-1504) Tempera glazed with oil on panel In the collection of the Norton Simon Museum. Photographed in November 2016. 
Apollonia, c. 1483 Filippino Lippi (Italian, 1457-1504) Tempera glazed with oil on panel In the collection of the Norton Simon Museum. Photographed November 2016. 
“Saints Benedict and Apollonia” and “Saints Paul and Frediano” both by Filippino Lippi, c. 1483. Tempera glazed with oil on panel. In the collection of the Norton Simon Museum. Photographed in November 2016. 
“Marriage of the Virgin” by Corrado Giaquinto. 1764-65. Oil on Canvas. Collection of the Norton Simon Museum. 
Artworks from a trip to the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2017.
Reliquary Bust of Saint Margaret of Antioch by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden his workshop. 1465/70. Walnut with traces of 19th century polychromy. In the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photographed in May of 2017. 
Altarpiece of the Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Monica, Augustine, Nicholas of Tolentino, Anthony and other Saints. Unknown Italian artist. 1450-75 Tempera and oil on Panel. In the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photographed in May, 2017. 
Bishop Saint from an Augustinian altarpiece. By an unnamed artist from the Venetian school. 1450-75. In the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photographed in May 2017. 
Saint Monica from an Augustinian altarpiece. By an unnamed artist from the Venetian school. 1450-75. In the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photographed in May 2017.
