A Book is like a Garden in the Pocket (1997), like the box, was made by adapting the same Japanese card structure. I wanted to reflect geometrical parterre gardens, also a product of ideas and ingenuity, so it was appropriate to use the square and semicircle pattern as a starting point. Back then I was very keen to use the materials of illuminated manuscripts, and in this case I used calfskin vellum for the 'pages' and made the drawings with a dip pen and gouache. My starting point was again...
