My work joins art and anthropology. After contemplating a career in art, I turned to anthropology as a way of understanding visual and material creativity in other cultural settings. Years in Guatemala learning from Maya women weavers combined with teaching anthropology. In turn, teaching took me and my students on numerous study trips where I began taking abundant visual fieldnotes along with written ones. Learning to make my own field journals introduced me to the field of book arts and I now make artist’s books—with images and text—to explore ideas and share insights that my written work alone can’t do.