carpe diem - making the most of mishaps...

  

Sometimes the best laid plans don't always go to plan...

like when you pen a title page just right

and then you accidentally plonk the page on top of another finished page 

and well...  It all starts looking like a D-grade horror movie

(I'm trying to forget the screams..... shudder)

so to turn a scene of despair to one of joy 

I bound the evidence of my crime into a little notebook...

well two notebooks actually ...

 

because if a job is worth stuffing up - its worth stuffing up TWICE 

(face palm!)

but I think I've almost redeemed myself with these mini booklets 

yes?

learning absences... (page by page)

Remember how I promised to show more of the small book edition I created as part of Book Art Object project? No? well it was a while ago.... I posted out all my books to the other BOA participants in early March..... but I wanted to wait until absolutely everyone had their book before I posted piccies here (and one of those folk was off touring) sooooo at long last I can now share my small creation with the rest of the world.... here it is page spread by page spread..... hope you enjoy

inner covers featured paper hand marbled by your truly in a simple stone pattern on either canson or ???....
(ok I admit I don't know what the other paper was - it was a gift from my darling friend julie)

endpapers are a kozo paper - text pages are mohawk superfine

printing is archival inkjet -
accurately feeding the long middle spread through my printer was ummmm 'challenging'

middle spread features fold out page with calligraphic rendering of an excerpt from the poem
(yes the original calligraphy was also by moi - executed free-form with a ruling pen)
layered in photoshop over background image of immature eucalypt leaves...
that I photographed in my garden here at sams creek

pamphlet bound with 2 ply hand coloured waxed linen thread

colophon page - I have a tendency to sign my work in pencil... I can't help it

inner back cover....
the stone marbled paper actually led much of the design direction of the project....
including the subsequent colour and circular motives on the paste paper covers,
the background image in the middle pages and the choice of book cloth and thread....

Of course its not the same as holding and turning the pages of the book yourself... but....

I really enjoyed the challenge of this project - I suppose because I set myself additional parameters (I was determined to create a rather traditionally bound booklet - and to undertake most of the processes, such as marbling etc. myself) but as always I'm filled with self doubt (especially now that I'm receiving such delights from the other project participants!) One day I'll be filled with self confidence (oh sure!) until then.....

.... its back to head down on my MFA booky work ...