Personal body-related information, like hair-styles and the fact that Lise had many mercury amalgam fill-ings as a child, are juxtaposed with more general information, such as what mercury actually does to us.

One of four pop-up fairy-tale books using fashion magazine text and images to tell the traditional stories in a snarky way.

Each mesh bag/page contains one day’s garbage; each book has a week’s worth. The text deals with the effect of garbage on our health.

Lise's mother's poign-ant and wistful text comes from taped interviews and her journals. This piece is partnered with Ghost Costumes: Kurt, that has no text but only images of what her father accomplished in his working career.

Carol was accidentally aerially sprayed with a pesticide designed to kill Gypsy Moths. This Star Caroussel book describes her difficult recovery.

Hand-marbelled paper from Thailand reminded Lise of the slag dumped daily in both communitites in which she grew up.

“Magic Wallets” have a hidden text behind the visible one.

Like many of the books in this series, this dollhouse-like pop-up book was made from left-over materials found in the artist's studio. Images 1, 2, and 3 show different rooms in the house.

Unfortunately, soon after publication, one of the houses burned down, killing one occupant and leaving several others truly homeless.

Andrew Lang is best known for his twelve Fairy Books, pub-lished between 1899 and 1910. Henry Justice Ford, greatly influenced by the painters of the Pre-Raphaelite school, provided the illustra-tions for all of Lang’s Fairy Books. Thanks to the North Bay and Kingston Public Li-braries for copies of these books.

Many-Fur (Allerleirau in German) was one of the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Perrault collected a similar story known as Donkeyskin (Peau d’Ane in French). As it involves incest, it has fallen out of modern collections for child-ren.

This pop-up rock cut morphs into Lise's scarred body, and has names of the heavy metals which she harbours.

Click here to see another version of the story.

The text by poet Diane Dawber in this abstract pop-up book describes four kinds of pain.

A very simple pop-up to make, but difficult to crush the flax/linen paper which Lise had so laboriously made.

This is an edition of five. Each recipe box is different. Lise is still looking for a couple more. Let her know if you are interested in selling an old metal recipe box, from the ’50s or ’60s, which says RECIPES on it.

It never would have occurred to Lise to kick boys in the crotch when she was in Grade Two...

Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast are accordion-fold pop-up books, but Cinderella is not.

These little dresses are made of satin, bro-cade and silk —very prince- and prin-cess-like. Text pages are all of handmade paper.

This accordion is double-sided. Lori Gilbert’s story starts on the other side and continues here.

The cast-paper face/cover lifts off to reveal 12 pages of text about the toxicity of some ingredients of shampoo and cosmetics.

These charming hand-drawn clothes came without a paper doll. The doll in this book was based on the Dionne Quintuplets (from the North Bay area) and Shirley Temple, all of whom were the poster girls of the 1930s.

These pages are intended to look like baby blankets folded around a baby. They are sewn together with satin ribbon like that used to edge blankets.