![A book with contours, by Wilson Yau, 2008](http://wilsonyau.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/IMG_1318-600px_watermarked.jpg)
I transformed the pages of a blank sketchbook through cutting. The shapes were based on my observations of the flaking layers of bark found on the mature London plane trees (Platanus × acerifolia) growing in Hackney Downs, London, during 2008. The book was on temporary display at the final show of the Art & Design in Education PGCE at the Institute of Education, London.
![Close-up: A book with contours, by Wilson Yau, 2008 Close-up: A book with contours, by Wilson Yau, 2008](http://wilsonyau.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/Book_DSCF7809-600px_watermarked.jpg)
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![Bark, London plane tree, Hackney Downs, 2008. Photograph by Wilson Yau](http://wilsonyau.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/IMG_8993_HackneyDowns_600px_watermarked.jpg)