Handle With Care is a small paper globe, created from eight gores (sections) of handmade abaca paper that are glued together and then inflated. Hand embroidered text runs along the equator and reads You are Holding the World in Your Hands. The globe rests in a laser cut box, and its sides have cutouts of the phases of the moon.
Twenty five copies of Handle With Care were produced in the winter of 2013 by Helen Hiebert, who made the pigmented air dried abaca paper, penned and embroidered the text, assembled the inflatable structure using eight gores plus some hot air, and designed the box, which was laser cut by Joe Freedman.