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Examines Laura's life and her continued interests.

Edited by Pieranna Cavalchini. Essays by Jennifer Gross, Anne Hawley, and Russell Ferguson.

"This book documents her monumental Ten Paintings exhibition which was on view at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art from April 28 through July 23, 2016. The exhibition included 10 paintings that were hidden with the wallpaper that covered the entire gallery space along with sound pieces that were programmed to respond to particular questions. When asked "Where are the paintings?" a scream would sound from all 10. The book includes detail and installation shots of the entire exhibition as well as a list of the sound bites that were included."--https://shop.oogaboogastore.com/products/laura-owens-ten-paintings (01/14/2020).

Newberry Award honoree and author of Ella Enchanted and others.

For over a decade Derbyshire artist Laura Ellen Bacon has been making art of a unique and compelling quality. As she says in her latest book, The ambition in my work is to generate a kind of intrigue and an appeal that touches a powerful nerve (perhaps ancient in its origin) that we cannot precisely locate. Laura's work uses mainly willow, weaving large and complex structures outdoors. Initially I see them as nests, large and strange, yet recognisable, and I wonder what kind of creature could have made them. But then the more I look at them, the more mysterious they seem and I am indeed intrigued. They seem to take on alien forms and then seem alive, like creatures. The one at the Arts and crafts house in Cumbria certainly looks to my eyes like an animal scaling the wall. Laura herself says as if the work will continue to grow when the viewer's back is turned and even in the book there is an almost hallucinatory sense of movement in much of her works.