The Book

Writing

 
Heather Busch and Burton Silver are New Zealanders who share a unique vision engendered by the country's remote geographical location and its sensuous landscape. They arrived at their intense interest in Kokigami by very separate paths, one biological and the other spiritual, each representing the twin aspects of their special art.

Burton Silver is well known for his conservation work with hedgehogs and especially for the very successful "Hedgehog Corking Scheme." In order to prevent these creatures from drowning in private swimming pools, he developed a simple method of providing them with permanent floatation by sticking corks onto their prickles. Anyone who is involved with this painstaking task, as thousands are in New Zealand, will understand how it naturally led to a fascination with the sticking on of a variety of other things.

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