Dear Mary is a unique artist's book. The cover and endpapers are fashioned from a dismantled 1931 college yearbook. Inside are nine vintage college photographs, each in its own cardboard folder, which have been altered (by the artist) with hand-embroidery, beading and appliqued fabric scraps. The photographs have been bound together accordion-style with decorative hand-cut hinges of Japanese kozo paper. The only text in the book are the messages that were handwritten to "Mary" by each of her fellow students from an unnamed college in Waterloo, Iowa.