October 31, 2008
The Box Maker
Erica Saladino builds boxes as beautiful as poems. They're boxes with corners perfectly squared and edges as straight as rulers, paperboard boxes that open as smoothly as the finest wood cabinets. They're boxes that precisely fit their contents: musty volumes with the bookplates of forgotten baronets, cuneiform tablets, Burmese prayer books made of lacquered palm leaves. They're boxes for "tragicall histories," for scrolls, for scientific observations from long-ago sea voyages, for art books
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