"Book of Books" by Tara Tavi

Tara Tavi

Tara Tavi is a multimedia artist and musician who lives in Pomona, CA with her husband Sam McPheeters and cat Blitzen.  She’s taught kindergarten and high school Art and believes, “We are all lanterns glowing briefly in the scheme of things. I want to know what illuminates us and what we are projecting out into the universe.”

"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.

Video direction and artwork by Tara Tavi
Editing by Mark Givens

Music: "Be There Treasure Aboard the Sunken Vessel"
by Aye Aye Captain
(Tara Tavi- dulcimer
Bobby Sell- keyboards)