“Book of Books” by Tara Tavi is a vibrant collection of altered books turned into small worlds that lead the viewer past paintings and into shadowboxes.
These are stories nested within stories. The trapdoors are the books themselves, the stories they tell, the images they show and the physicality of a rectangular prism of printed tree leaves. We fall in, we envision the story, and we enter a third space – our experiences kinetically interacting with the ideas, our personal extrapolation on the words and the thoughts and images they conjure. The ideas resonate out into our daily life, creating new eddies of synchronicity.
Tara has been a member of Amps for Christ, Goosewind and a plethora of other bands as well as a prolific painter and artist. Tavi’s book is available worldwide now or direct from us here. Check out the trailer below.