These artworks are created using a variety of techniques including collage, paper manipulation, cutting, folding and painting.  Each process is unique to the curated book.

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An artwork collaboration by Maggie Kerrigan and Sandi Snider that depicts a photo of a bee on a flower surrounded by honeycomb made from book paper.

HONEY HONEY --- Do you ever wonder what bees do in their secret life? This collage is a collaboration with photographer Sandi Snider...

An artwork by Maggie Kerrigan showing small bits of paper from an encyclopedia, collaged to imply a heavy rainstorm.

RAIN RAIN --- This artwork endeavors to capture the multifaceted essence of climate change through the delicate medium of paper collage...

A collage by artist Maggie Kerrigan that implies melting glaciers and uses paper cut from encyclopedias.

EPHEMERAL ICE --- This paper collage serves as a testament to the profound impact of human activity on our environment.  Using paper scraps...

An artwork by Maggie Kerrigan that includes blue and black circles sewn to strips of fabric that are hanging from a rod.

BLACK AND BLUE --- Using the novel, Black and Blue, this artwork evokes the emotions and reality of a survivor of domestic abuse.  On the surface...

This is an artwork by Maggie Kerrigan that has layers of color that form a sunset. Paper is from a book about shorelines in America.

SUNSET OVER THE BAY --- There is nothing like sitting at Baja Restaurant on Back Bay and watching the colors change as the sun slowly sinks...

Artwork by Maggie Kerrigan of an ocean wave created with paper from a book.

THE COLOR OF WATER --- Water is nothing more than the reflection of  the color near it.  Removing the essence of one layer reveals not just another layer...

An artwork by Maggie Kerrigan that has shredded pages of a map woven into handmade paper

ROAM --- Crafted from the shredded pages of the Road Atlas of Europe, the artwork symbolizes the dismantling of traditional ideas of maps, borders...

An artwork by Maggie Kerrigan of a boy's face that has been cast in paper and is pushing out through the text from a novel.

THE EMERGING MAN --- The fragile medium of paper reflects the vulnerability and fluidity of the teen years, where identity is still being...

An artwork by Maggie Kerrigan-- a book about painters that has been carved to emulate the Color Study by Kandinsky.

COLOR STUDY AFTER KANDINSKY --- This is a tribute to the iconic exploration of color, form, and emotion pioneered by Wassily Kandinsky. He was...