The book is a modified accordion covered with corrugated paper, and bound with duct tape. It was what I had that day -- it would have made Ma'Cile proud. There's a short booklet included that describes the museum and some of my experiences growing up around it in a little more detail.

The text was taken from the foreword of one of our family history books, written by one of my very talented sisters, Sandee House. The font used is "Batik Regular", a font downloaded from www.wantedfonts.com.

The book folds into a 3-D house for display, with the text to the inside or the outside of the structure.

I used several layers of transparencies and photographs and chose a distressed font to add depth to the book, to force the reader to look closer, and to echo the deterioration of most of the items in the museum.

The book includes various 3D objects, some that came from the museum, some that could have.

Oh, yeah, that's me above, with my friend, around 1975 or so. Gotta love that long hair and that Army jacket! Too bad you can't see the red, white, and blue bell-bottom hip huggers, which would actually be back in style now...

This book was created originally in response to an exchange with the theme of "Floor Plan".

A little more about Ma'Cile's Museum of Miscellanea:
My paternal grandparents, Frances Lucile Hollingsworth House (Ma'Cile) and Norman Lee House (Daddy Norman), created a free museum in rural Alabama called Ma'Cile's Museum of Miscellania, and that's exactly what it was - the most unbelievable collection of miscellaneous "stuff" ever assembled.

I have many wonderful memories of growing up in and around the museum. But, for some reason, art inspired by this magical place is always a little odd, slightly creepy, somewhat off-kilter. Maybe it was the odd juxtaposition of objects in the museum. Maybe its because most of my photographs of the museum were taken after it began its decline, and the items are dusty and deteriorating. Or maybe it's just the way the museum wants to be remembered…