#paul johnson

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Paul Johnson, ''Hellraiser-Nightbreed - Jihad'', #1, 1991

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TIE Fighter (2015)

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Staff Picks Saturday

For this week’s Staff Pick Saturday, I have chosen to present Garden of the Mind by Paul Johnson, which was created as a part of Johnson's Book Art Project in 2008. This is from our collection of small artists books, and certainly fits, clocking in at only 6cm tall. 

Paul Johnson (b. 1943) is a UK-based book artist, known especially for his pop-up books. His books are particularly notable for the frequent use of bright fabric dyes and of an assortment of paper dovetails, joints, and hinges to create the structures in his books, rather than other paper folds and glue.  

Garden of the Mind, although colorful, is much more reserved in style compared to his larger pop-up works. Divided into 4 sections, with cut-out windows between, this book takes the reader through a garden landscape, with text focusing on reflection and meditation.  

Although this book is about an internal garden rather than a physical one, it felt like a good fit for the approach of planting season this spring! 

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-- Elizabeth, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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Paul Johnson

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TIE Fighter

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Celebration of Gary Cole

Sometimes you need to see a boy in him…

Gary Cole as Harrison Jackson in Mixed-ish 1x01