The Crab by Bettina Pauly

Bill Denham’s dream, 2009Bettina Pauly artist book, 2023The call for entry came from 23 Sandy. The theme was ‘Dreams’.My friend and poet Bill Denham contacted me to ask if I would be interested in a collaboration, using one of his dreams he had written down over the years.I selected ‘The Crab’ and after different mock-ups, that did not look like the finished piece at all, I remembered Kumi Korf’s structure ‘How to Bind Five Eggs’.The  structure allowed me to incorporate the sculpted nose as well as the poem and the pop-up crab.