Notebook
A girl who writes down everything she notices, so she’ll know it was there.
In progress · Coming soonA catalog
of small things
After her father dies, Piper starts a notebook. She doesn’t know what else to do with the feeling of things disappearing, so she writes them down — the names of butterflies, the quality of afternoon light through the fence, the exact way her neighbor hangs laundry on Tuesdays.
Piper’s Notebook is a photographic novel set in a backyard at 1/4 scale. It’s a story about grief and observation, about the way paying attention to small things can be a way of holding on. The story is currently being made — follow along to read each chapter as it’s photographed and released.
Who’s in the story
Ten years old, beetle t-shirt, always slightly distracted by something no one else has noticed yet. She keeps a notebook. She writes everything down.
Younger than Piper, quieter than she looks, with a great deal of curly hair and a tendency to appear in doorways. She and Piper haven’t properly met yet.
He and Piper go to the same school — different grades, so they recognize each other without quite knowing each other. He has the look of someone who is often thinking about something else.
A backyard at
1/4 scale
The backyard set — Piper’s world at 1/4 scale
Piper with her field guide and butterfly jar
“She didn’t want to hold onto things forever. She just wanted to know it had been there.”