By Aimee Lee
Cleveland, Ohio: Bionic Hearing Press, 2024. Two variants.
5 x 3.4 x 0.75" closed, 6.9" wide open; 10 leaves. Pen on handmade paper. Materials: handmade paper and thread . Signed and numbered by the artist.
 
Aimee Lee: "This book revisits a previous version, about what elements are required to make paper. They all seem so basic, natural, and easy, but the right combination and sequence are not as simple as imagined-or are they? The colors reflect the text."
SUN / SKY / CLOUD / RAIN / SOIL / WORM / SEED / ROOT / SHOOT / LEAF / YOU / PAPER
Colophon: “Aimee Lee made this second version of ‘All it takes’ at Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia. The text is based on her previous book of the same name from 2016 and similarly bridled, but instead of bark pages, its pages are made of varied papers made by her Oberlin College students in her Papermaking and Book Art class. She lettered her text with pen on sized cotton, abaca, and mixed fiber paper made by novice papermakers.”
 
As of June 1, 2024, #1 in this edition is wondering around in the US Postal Service network. We hope it surfaces as this is a lovely book.