Sauda’s artist’s book, “Lebenslauf” is composed of four individual pieces. Some are ceramic and fragile, which is the main focus I held as I created the box to house these items. I laid out the items and made a rough drawing with the measurements of each item.

I ended up cutting out shapes of each item from archival board. These ‘made to size cutouts’ helped when I began making the box that included compartments for the items.

The cut outs helped me make accurate compartments for each of the irregular shaped items. When I make archival boxes for books, I use the book as a measurement, and make marks on the board using the book. This was the same process. I used the cutouts (not the actual item) for a measurement. The actual items don’t need to be handled too much….they are precious.

Cutting and gluing down the blue book cloth was tricky because there were lots of corners and angles. I had a nice marbled paper on heavy paper that matched nicely with the book cloth, and also was a subtle accent for the actual pieces Sauda Mitchell created. I glued the marbled paper onto the floor of each compartment of the box. One of the ceramic pieces had a foot on the bottom side and I made a small frame to keep the ceramic piece in place. I hope the completed box both protects and accents this wonderful piece of art.