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
More notes are on their way.
“She didn’t want to hold onto things forever. She just wanted to know it had been there.”