beware the wet paint

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New semester and new class in book arts, this one is the artist book class. Our first assignment was to create a sequence using one image. It could be changed how we chose and use the marterials we wanted, it did not say it had to be a book in the realm of a stack of pages with a cover. Me being me, I took a photograph I had taken of water, cut it up and glued in to colored wooden blocks then stuck them in a tray.

Formally it is:

   

   

Example of possible sequence

The blocks have the words: Water, H2O, Aqua, Wet, Rain, Tears, Ocean and River. Also four of the blocks have the letters: L, I, F, E. The sides of the blocks are painted in various shades of blue, white and green. It is alot of fun to play with the blocks and to watch other people play with them as well.

Finally, the Final

I finally have pictures of my final for the book binding class I took. So here is the Leaf Book.

The basics are a traditional round spine binding with a batik fabric cover, handmade paper endsheets and english somerset pages. Inside the book the endsheets are tea dyed, while the textblock is made up of pages covered with a watercolor wash and stamps of leaves in several colors. The text is a poem of sorts.

A leaf is a beautiful thing.

Just as a person is a beautiful thing.

Every leaf is unique.

Just as every person is unique.

No two people are exactly the same.

Just as no two people are exactly the same.

Leaves come in all shapes and sizes.

Just as people come in all shapes and sizes.

Every leaf has a part to play.

Just as every person has a part to play.

No leaf works alone.

Just as no person works alone.

All the leaves work together.

Just as all the people work together.

Working together all the leaves help the tree.

Just as working together all the people help the Earth.

The leaves can save the tree.

Just as the people can save the Earth.

The box/container is in the style of a japanese chitsu. The box is covered with the same batik as the book and lined with a tea dyed handmade paper. There are cutouts in the cover of the book and the box which show a single leaf in handmade paper.