August: Tunnel Book

A book format that I continue to revisit is the tunnel book for its playfulness not only in appearance but also for the fun I have putting them together. When Kristin, from Space Paste Press, suggested that we make a tunnel book for the August intellectual collaboration I jumped at the idea. In order to narrow down the scope of the project, we decided that the book will center around one line of text and stay within 5 to 6 frames. I had some prints left over from a graphic design class I took a while ago. I printed the…

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July: Paste Papers and Cloth

A special project in the timeline of the intellectual collaboration projects this year was July's.  We had the opportunity to collaborate in person! So for this special occasion, we decided to practice a technique instead of complete a book project. We chose to experiment with paste papers and paste cloth as it is a material that has many applications and one that I continue to come back to. Here are a few of the paste papers that were a result of our session. I tried to break out of what I normally do since the idea was to experiment...these still…

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June: Accordion

The intellectual collaboration for June was an accordion book with a narrative theme, specifically documentation of some sort. I chose to visually document a trip I took to India. I knew I wanted to use only image based narration, and immediately a presentation I attended last year came to mind. During the College Book Arts Association meeting in Bloomington at the beginning of this year, I sat in on a talk given by Betsy Davids about palm leaf books she studied in India. These books are heavily illustrated with lots of detailed images all done by hand, scratched into the…

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May: Ephemera

May's intellectual collaboration project challenge was to create an artist book having to do with "ephemera." I've seen several at the Lilly Library that either stunned me or just made me wonder why anyone might want to collect such scraps and put them into books. When it comes down to it, ephemeral books reflect the life of the person who collected the fragments. So, I thought it would be appropriate to document my time at the Paper and Book Intensive in Saugatuck, Michigan with this sort of project. I chose to use the blizzard book structure, which I first saw…

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April: National Poetry Month

I'll continue to catch up on posting some earlier projects this month with one that occured in April. In honor of national poetry month, the Spring Leaf Press and Space Paste Press intellectual collaboration for April was a book of poetry. The binding could be traditional or creative but it had to center around poetry. Using the resource that is the Project Gutenberg, I chose to bind William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. These poems were originally illustrated by Blake, however, those original illustrations were left out of this book. This selection of poetry is comprised of two related…

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