"I've written the first five poems to suggest the build up to Pandora opening the box, while the next five are about the miseries getting released into a contemporary world like ours. The last poem is my favorite--'don't fly' is about the only thing that was left in the box, which was hope ... In the context of other artists' books I've tried to create a book that's been pared down to its absolute minimum. It's monochrome. It's using only the shape of the page to hint at the box. Its type is its only illustration and plays as the shadow/misery. It's self binding. There are no serifs on the type. There's a bit of a free for all feeling over here with artist's books at the moment now that printing and digital printing/publishing is so easily available to everyone. So I purposely gave myself some strict and considered boundaries within this medium"--Artist's statement at the Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on February 18, 2015.