"Seeking Sara"

An Evidence Based Mixed Media Art Journey

Part 2

Choosing this book for its pertinence to my story of Sara’s life

It’s called Character Sketches of Romance Fiction and the Drama.

Well there was plenty of drama involved here.

To make it an evidence journal/book I decided to add and adapt a shadow box or small printer’s tray. I had found one in the USA that Michael fell in love with and adapted for one of his classes.

But this one was even smaller.

I had elements that I had already created

And some that were yet to be created

Since the box was in a raw form, I painted and altered it to suit my needs.

I created a lot of blank mini books which will serve to record different bits of evidence that I may stumble across in my search for Sara.

The mini books are all hand made and bound to the same specifications as a larger book.

The main book houses both the evidence box

And it’s components

On the left under the cover I created a fronts-piece

Which tells part of the story within

Sandwiched between two pieces of acrylic, the elements used are some of the elements I had from my last Italy trip.

Within the box one finds many individual elements , mostly found, like these mini watchmakers tins that I intend to add finds in Italy.

Adding and combining elements that have been repaired and or altered to serve my purpose.


This piece was a tattered and broken mini Victorian photo album

I repaired the pages, stuck most of them together and added the aged initials of Sara

I added some embossed velvet and left part of it open so I can use it like a shrine when I find the right pieces to add to it in Italy.

Then I will complete it by adding some glass or mica.

The spine was re-done as there was none when I purchased the book.

Mini vials were altered and chained together so I can add items from the journey

I decided to take an old Mezuzah with me, maybe as proof of who this is about, maybe for protection

But maybe I will place it somewhere and leave it in Italy, I am not sure but it needed housing, so I had a very old leather key chain which I cut apart, resewed and measured to size my mezuzah in. The leather was already split so I decided that that would be the pocket in which rests my Mezuzah.

I had a small copy of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant Of Venice” so I wanted to bring that along.

But I hated the vinyl cover it had so I re-covered it in a leather more apt to my piece.

Small paper parcels were created to add notes if necessary

Now since this post has taken hours to upload because blogger has decided to fail on me, I will stop here and update again soon.

xo