Published by Dossier Industries Spring 2026

PACKING MATERIALS is a book by Alyson Fox, bringing together twelve years of assemblages, photographs, and notes gathered from daily life. Working across mediums, Fox treats making as both documentation and discovery—an ongoing way of noticing change through the materials at hand. 

Part journal, part visual map, Packing Materials unfolds as an intimate record of time passing. Images and texts move in a language of repetition and return, tracing a practice grounded in reflection, memory, and the quiet act of arranging. Ordinary objects—collected, discarded, or remade—become signposts, marking shifts in thinking, feeling, and living. 

Beyond its visual record, the book is a meditation on making as a form of understanding. It reflects on the role of attention, touch, and repetition in shaping both creative practice and personal history, inviting readers to engage with the work as something to be held, lived with, and returned to over time.