{"id":6370,"date":"2013-08-05T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:20:53","slug":"book-artist-of-the-month-jody-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/05\/book-artist-of-the-month-jody-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Artist of the Month: Jody Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If She Thought It Would Help, Zelda Would Use Her Antediluvian Curse Cache to Attain Her Revenge<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>is the title for a ‘boxed book’ project that Jody Alexander<\/a> created in 2004. The wooden box is packed with books on the left and found objects in compartments on the right. The exposed spines of the books display a variety of sewing structures including packed sewing over split thongs, Coptic, longstitch, ticketed, French stitch and sewing over cords.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jody expresses that the title says enough for the viewer to fill in the rest in regards to the concept of the piece. So please, make your own conclusions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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If She Thought It Would Help, Zelda Would Use Her Antediluvian Curse Cache to Attain Her Revenge\u00a0is the title for a ‘boxed book’ project that Jody Alexander created in 2004. The wooden box is packed with books on the left and found objects in compartments on the right. 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