Erin Shook's EPortfolio

Question Authority Before IT Questions YOU

I am a metaphor aficionado passionate about language, preservation of material culture and heritage, conservation, and MARC records. I have experience in laboratory and office environments and have melded the two arenas to become an unstoppable force. My undergraduate studies in anthropology led me to my Capstone project working with the human osteology collection at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory and I also volunteer at a medical library serving nursing students and faculty. I enjoy asking questions as much as I enjoy finding answers. I create analog and digital art that reflects my state of continual wonder at the natural world. Below you may peruse some of my projects in flat paper treatment and conservation, bound materials, and critical cataloging.

Pink flowers overlaid on a sky with light poles and a cross

Green ferns over a shallow creek with an orange sun beam

Projects

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An archival document in pieces and tatters and after treatment as a whole

Conservation/Preservation

This image depicts the "before" and "after" treatment of an autographed letter with signature from the Colonel Hook Papers collection housed at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. I completed the majority of the repairs with tissue paper and wheat paste in order to make the document accessible to future researchers.