Susan McDonald

"Playing with the Moon"
by Susan McDonald

This small format accordion book was designed as a pictorial dance. It takes advantage of the potential the folding book has to describe time. It has a whimsical narrative as the moon changes form, and offers an opportunity for the expression of the human figure. Color changes as the narrative develops to enchance the sense of time passing.

The book is painted in egg tempera and watercolor on Japanese paper, and is painted on both sides, although the narrative occurs on only one face of the book.