“Soil and Water” is an artist’s book I have created that celebrates our planet’s most precious resource, soils.  This was a five year long project completed during the same year as the  United Nations International year of Soil 2015. This book brings to light what is often over looked and not always appreciated. Soils host a quarter of the earths biodiversity and it is a non-renewable resource.  To bring facts back to my home in The Bronx I see our water front that has cement and industry instead of soil. We need soils and plants to help mitigate storm floods from happening again such as Hurricane Sandy. The pages are loose, the box created for each artist’s book is unique. The linoleum that was used to create the book’s images was collaged together and glued down on the top of the box. This allows the portfolio box to portray a  story before the reader even begins to turn the first page.