These artworks are created using a variety of techniques including deconstruction and reconstruction of books.  They can be installed and hung in a variety of ways to work with the space.  Each is unique to the curated book.

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The artwork by Maggie Kerrigan, Their Tender Hearts, is made from a book and hangs as a long scroll of paper that has been punctured with thousands of holes.

Their Tender Hearts
Book Used:  This Tender Land

This artwork is a recreation of the POW/MIA remembrance table that is set up at military balls and banquets. Made completely of paper, it features a full-size table, chair, plate, glass and the other items on the remembrance table.

The Empty Chair
Books Used:  The Forgotten Soldier, Captive and One Soldier’s Story

Artwork by Maggie Kerrigan featuring faces of cast-paper with streamers of books flowing from the mouths.

Something to Say
Books Used:  Selections from my three “victims”

An artwork of book paper that has been twisted into yarn and then knitted with two giant knitting needles.

Unraveled
Book Used:  Unraveled

Artwork by Maggie Kerrigan--strips of paper from the book A Rip in Heaven, hanging.

Ripped
Book Used:  A Rip in Heaven

An artwork by Maggie Kerrigan of dumbbells that have been cast in paper from the book War and Peace, and they are suspended from the ceiling.

Heavy Reading
Book Used:  War and Peace