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.