I wanted to play with the idea of the book as a myriorama. The traditional myriorama was a set of cards with various images of a landscape, always with an internal element that joined the cards together while at the same time allowing them to be juxtaposed in any order. Look On This Wonder uses paper prisms as five-sided “pages” that can be moved around randomly within the “book” or be separated from the other pages and rearranged outside the confines of the acrylic prism “binding.” The pages can also be stacked on top of one another to form three-dimensional “chapters.” Each page has three squares and two triangles: the squares provide spaces for various fragmented views of the male nude and selected words from Walt Whitman’s “I Sing the Body Electric;” the triangles entreat the viewer over and over to look on the wonder of the human body. Touching the fragile paper prisms is like touching the model’s body parts, adding an element of sensuality to the rigid geometry of the prisms.To add a bit of mischievousness to this playful myriorama, while one might assume that the elements of the nude body appearing on the faces of the prisms can be put back together, they cannot and will always remain fragmented; only one set of sides can be put together to form the lines from the poem in its original order. The questions of what constitutes a page and what constitutes a book remain as unresolved and mysterious as ever. As Gertrude Stein wrote in Tender Buttons: “Book was there, it was there. Book was there.”