Quote:
"I wanted to work in acrylics, but supply and shipping were disrupted by the pandemic and I couldn't get animation paper [for How to Be at Home]—but I had lots of books. I love animated projects that use books (especially The Opposites Game by Lisa LaBracio) and I was curious. Also, the motif of a book—of reading, an activity we might turn to while isolated at home—lent itself well to the theme of the poem. The books, themselves, were another story. I wanted old books that had yellowing pages. I found several books in my boyfriend's mother's basement and the rest came from a friend who works at a second-hand bookstore. I used around 15 books in total."
-- Andrea Dorfman

Source:
Animation Magazine. "Short-form magic." Animation Magazine, vol. 35, no. 6, June-July 2021. (p. 29)