Over the last 10 years Dorsey Hogg has been exploring book arts and paper sculpture by repurposing book pages and papers that are destined for the landfill. She loves the challenge of taking a book whose pages have not been opened in years (if ever) and creating a new life for it; exposing the words, illustrations, photos, all the life within, and showing it to the world in a new way. She began using only found materials after she realized how much waste she was creating in her artwork, artwork that was often never finished. Using discarded books and materials has provided her with endless projects and opportunities while keeping her art footprint very small.