When I started working out the design for my book Summer in Vermont, I also was playing around with a set of haiku I’d written about winter. Turns out I have a lot of them, probably owing to the how novel winter, cold and snow have been to me since moving to Santa Fe from California. The Vermont book got finished first, but I continued working on the one about winter, especially when, in the week or so it took me to assemble the book, I got tired of standing at my work bench.
I wanted to keep exploring the idea of having a surprise at the end of the book, in the form of a pop-up or shadow box. And I wanted to use the new cutting machine I’d bought. The result is another miniature book, Winter’s Song. Like the Vermont book, it’s 8 spreads — that’s one below. You can see all the spreads here. The last page folds out to reveal a final haiku and pop-up, papercut illustration.
