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Count In Full Color is a sturdy photographic board book that introduces numbers one through ten through vibrant arrangements of fruits and vegetables. Simple prompts invite young children to count, point, identify shapes, and look closely while exploring food, color, and photography. Created for ages 0–3 and designed for reading together.
Find In Full Color is a vibrant photographic seek-and-find hardcover filled with colorful food arrangements. Across 32 full-color pages, children are invited to search, count, compare, notice patterns, explore new words, and make discoveries through playful questions and detailed photographs. Recommended for ages 4 and up, it can be enjoyed independently or together.
Artist’s Statement
For more than 13 years, I have used food as a visual language. Through photography, I have explored color, pattern, repetition, shape, texture, and the unexpected beauty of ordinary ingredients. My work has taken many forms over that time, but my curiosity and close observation have always been at its center.
Count In Full Color and Find In Full Color bring those years of work together in a new way. Count In Full Color uses colorful arrangements of fruits and vegetables to introduce numbers one through ten. Find In Full Color invites children to search, compare, notice patterns, explore language, and interpret photographs through both direct and open-ended questions. Each book encourages children to slow down, look closely, and discover details for themselves.
This project is also deeply personal. When I was a toddler, I ended up in the hospital with severe asthma. I was required to breathe oxygen through a mask nightly for about a year after. To help me stay calm and focused, I was told to point to colors in books. The idea that images can create connection, comfort, and concentration has stayed with me throughout my life.
After years of seeing my photographs used without my permission, I began to question whether I was finished making art. At times, even looking at my own work was painful. But the answer had been in front of me all along: for more than a decade, I had dreamed of creating children’s books from my photography.
As I began making these books, I saw my archive differently. Images created across many years and different periods of my life began to feel as though they had been waiting for this purpose. These books are not a departure from my previous work, they are its continuation and culmination.
I believe these books may be the most meaningful things I have ever created. They represent the many ways I see food and are an opportunity to share that with children. They feel like the reason I made everything that came before them, and like what I was meant to make next.