Zebby is a Brooklyn terrier with a very big way of looking at the world.
He’s a photographer, writer, collector, inventor, seasoned smell-er, adventurer, magician, jokester and charismatic life-lover. For Zebby, every walk is a treasure hunt. He finds letters in garbage, studies manhole covers like urban snowflakes, photographs fire hydrants, collects smells and notices the stories hiding in the cracks.
Zebby is all about the Senses. And the Nonsenses.
At the heart of Zebby’s world is a simple idea: you don’t need much to find adventure. The city is his playground, and ordinary things become extraordinary when you really look at them.
Zebby began as a book, but his world has kept growing. Additional stories, characters, adventures, games and ideas have been developed around him- all rooted in creativity, curiosity, humor and the joy of noticing what everyone else walks past.
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THE MAGIC IN YOU! is a timeless story celebrating the wonders of the imagination.
The message: You have magic bubbling up inside of you! It’s about all our wonderful energy swirling beneath the surface and how we are more similar than different.
The main character - “every child” - is the magical creature who lives in all of us, even when we get old. It never dies, just gets more buried. Let it loose!
This character was created by ripping a paper towel that I used to clean my paint brushes. It’s made from the coming together of hundreds of random overlapping colors.
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Cracks, Sludge, Dust, Grime, Wandering, Tripping, Staring, Smelling, Swearing, Sweating, Everyday, Go Out, Look Up, Look Down, Stacks, People, Concrete... Can't Walk A Straight Line.
“Can’t Walk A Straight Line” is a handmade book about NYC. Each spread tells a personal story about the vibrant, ever-changing city. This visual journal took me over a year to make. The book is stuffed with snapshots of the city from exploring the streets.
The original handmade book is collaged into a giant 12" X 16.5" Moleskine and is almost 100 pages. It weighs a ton and is so fat it can't quite close. Delicious.
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Dear Tree, I Love You is a personal project about trees that I started in early 2021 and created on and off for over two years. The original physical book is filled with real photos collaged into a blank journal, so it is bursting at the seams with all of the paper and paint packed into it.
We moved to Princeton in 2015 from Williamsburg, Brooklyn - trading in gray concrete for green grass after 20 years of city living. From the moment we came to the Garden State, I have been bowled over by nature, and especially the beauty of the trees and the stories of the seasons!
I was inspired to make this book from my love of my family and my 4-legged fuzzy sons who breathe pure joy from meandering amongst nature. I love seeing these tree giants every day and how they make me feel with their many outfits and stances and expressions.
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FOR THE LOVE OF TREES!
My handmade tree journal, “Dear Tree, I Love You,” featured on the cover and inside of the winter edition of Princeton Magazine. Woo-hoo!
“My husband and I moved to Princeton in 2015 from Williamsburg, Brooklyn…and from the moment we came to the Garden State, I have been bowled over by nature and especially the beauty of the trees and the stories of the seasons. I love seeing these tree giants every day and how they make me feel with their many outfits, stances, and expressions.”
After I moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn, my rooftop became my living room. I had a perfect view of the skyline and stared at it over&over again.
Those views became The Greatest City on Earth, a collection of mixed-media New York skylines that was selected for MoMA Design Store’s Destination: NYC and published as a book of postcards.
I was invited to speak at OFFF Barcelona, and later invited to contribute to Archetype, the festival’s official book, creating a piece about passion and how strong emotions fuel artistic creation.
Wandering the streets of Havana, seeing the nooks, tasting the crannies… How can a place be so lush & parched all at once?
This handmade photo journal contains pages of colorful collages and Polaroids from my trip to Cuba in 2003. The book was a gift to my husband who walked through his history for the very first time. It took about a year to make.
8" x 11.5" / 70 pages
