Candy-coated Pink Slinky Books

It’s a Wonderful Toy, 2008
Plastic slinky toys, wood, hinges, magnets, permanent marker, and personal poem written on slinky

In August, 2012, A Wonderful Toy was added to the National Library of Spain located in Madrid.  This art book was part of the first Monumental Ideas in Miniature Book project organized and curated by Hui Chu Ying, Printmaking Professor, University of Akron.

"Big Little Books: Morgan Conservatory launches a seminal show," Cleveland Scene
by Douglas Max Utter, April 15, 2009
The following text is an excerpt from Cleveland review 2009.pdf

The 137 contemporary small works of art at Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books (MIMB as it's called at flickr.com where the whole show is documented), painstakingly assembled by Hui-Chu Ying, associate professor at the University of Akron's Myers School of Art, constantly surprise the viewer with innovative combinations of materials, presentation and subject matter. 

Images vary from the horrific to the delightful; deadly serious subjects rub shoulders with whimsy. Relatively conventional fold-out formats predominate, seeming a little fusty (though often exquisitely well-constructed) next to the delicious funkiness of a piece like Leticia Bajuyo's "A Wonderful Toy," with text handwritten along the curls of a fuchsia-colored Slinky. 

Each [artist] produced five copies of a work slated to appear at venues around the U.S. and, so far, in nine other countries (including Sweden, Japan, Spain, Italy and Mexico) over the next three years.