Ha Noi Is My Love, is a 12-artist collaboration celebrating the 1000-year anniversary of Ha Noi in 2010. This project was conceived at the end to the Fine Arts Book Workshop and fabricated the week of Dec. 8 -15 at the Ha Noi Contemporary Fine Arts Center, of the Viet Nam Fine Arts Association. The book is 21 x 355cm, 8.25 x 140 in.

The primary work shop during my visit to Vietnam was a four day book arts workshop at the Contemporary Fine Arts Center, Hanoi, with 13 Vietnamese printers, painters, and graphic designers This workshop was the first experience these artists had with the idea of the book as art and the craft of constructing book structures. In this work shop the basic principles and tools of bookbinding were explain along with brief cultural history of the book. Through the workshop we debated the definition of artists books and contemporary online resources were shared.

The Kim Don Publishing House is a children’s book publisher and I was invited to give a two-day workshop. Vietnam has an ancient history of the book and respect for teaching and with in mind we discussed the art of book making as an educational tool. This workshop explored book 1-page origami books, structures to be made at a commercial level and the basic principles of paper engineering.