Hand-bound from reclaimed book pages, layered map fragments, and aged paper textures,
 
Trapped in a Tree carries the feeling of suspension — mid-branch, mid-story, mid-turn.
 
Fragment Books are a place to hold fragments — whatever that means to you.
 
This piece measures 7.5 inches tall and 5.5 inches wide. The cover layers an upside-down map reference to “Hidden Mountain Health Hotel” with softened, weathered pages and stitched binding. Inside, illustrated spreads reference Chester Cricket’s New Home, while other pages reveal phrases like “trapped in a tree,” quietly anchoring the tone.
 
There is movement in this book — but also containment. Pages feel slightly displaced, like a story interrupted and waiting to be resumed.
 
This is not a blank notebook.

It is not a finished artwork.
 
It lives in between.
 
Fragment Books are vessels for accumulation — additions, marginal notes, layered collage, private narrative, and unfinished thought.
 
You are not asked to complete it.

Only to continue it.