Wednesday 15 June 2016

Six Questions

'Six Questions: An interview with....' is a series of micro books.
In each book six questions are put to and answered by an object.

This series of books has been met with amusement by viewers, but once they have read the interviews they are pleasantly surprised! I was fortunate to attend a creative writing class, where students were asked to have a conversation with an object.....my book ideas started to form straight away!

It's been a really enjoyable task, and a break from extracting text for book works.



'Six Questions' 2016
Front cover: 74 x 105mm inkjet printed on 90g paper in white


Inside page: Set in 10pt Gill Sans







Tuesday 14 June 2016

Dot Dash

'Dot Dash' 2016

A ten page A6 booklet based on the theme 'Dot Dash'.
To be included in an online exhibition at www.weloveyourbooks.com 

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Translated from lines in poems about the sea, the morse code in this book offers a stark, simple mark on the page, suggestive of the harshness of a maritime distress call. It is in contrast to a romantic notion of life at sea, portrayed in the selected poems (see below).

Using a sewing machine to stitch lines across tracing paper gave an interesting dot dash effect. The hand printed title fitted between the lines completely by accident! I love it when that happens!





'Dot Dash' 2016
A6
Hand printed on 270gsm Colorplan white frost and machine
stitched on tracing paper.





Inside:
Inkjet printed on 135gsm Colorplan white frost.



Selected lines from poems:

But the tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me.

Till my soul is full of longing
For the secret of the sea.

Themselves the verge of seas to be.

So the stars wheeled round, and the darkness past.

And some are drowned in deep water.

Feast them upon the wideness of the sea.

Home is the sailor, home from the sea.

For the ship's my wife, and the breath of life.

The world of water is our home.

On went she, and due north her journey took.