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| these books house my artist statements for my library of human dynamics, immutable show |
Showing posts with label book art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book art. Show all posts
Monday, February 10, 2014
in the library of human dynamics
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Blank and Beautiful: A Library of Human Dynamics, Immutable
If each of us is a book, our pages are perforated and magnetic and could be blank for all their ephemeral accuracy. Though we are sequential beings, our narratives are not linear. Memory is written on holographic stationary, recounting an ambience of history, physics, and expectation. We agree to coalesce by using every day and ordinary expressions, identifying patterns, telling time, and working around the weather. But the blindingly beautiful weight of our potential is hidden in the archives of our library of human dynamics. The truth is immutably infinite, and we function as reflective tricks of this light. I expect to spend my entire life growing acquainted to living things.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Using Every Part of the Animal
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| This is an old photo album I found at the Reninger Extravganza flea market, and then gutted. |
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| These are the guts from the album, used to frame a few things around my room. |
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| Rolls of paper for the new album book block |
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| Book block cut and clamped, ready for binding |
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| Binding materials: white corrugated linen thread, curved needle, beeswax. Binding using coptic stitch |
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| Book block binding complete |
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| Book block ready to be glued into gutted cover, and completed |
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| Completed album with end pages as the finishing touches |
Thursday, January 5, 2012
You Are My Specimen; Let Me Take You With Me
A Pocket Album
let's move on
from trying to recreate the moment with the watusi and the grappling hook
by the time I attached to you
you fell through my colander like a fistful of sand
years passed
before I came home to find you crawling through the window of my new address
while my frame scraped your spine, we grew embarrassed in our own ways
Materials For a Photo Booth Pocket Photo Album: old book, box cutter (or x acto), glue (preferably archival), some durable paper (for the spine, and inside), straight edge
I found this Centennial Pocket Album at a thrift store on a trip to Brooklyn.
I liked the idea of a pocket album so much that once I altered the original, I decided to make reproductions.
I think it's simple and low cost enough that the process is worth sharing. Start with an old book. Cut the spine and all the pages away from the book.
Separate front and back covers into three equal pieces each. Slice the edge away, and peel it off (it doesn't necessarily have to be the existing spine, but it is a convenient marker).
Burnish the underlying layer to make it smooth for the next step.
Take two facing pieces from front and back, leaving a quarter inch of space between them. Then, put glue, (I use yasutomo nori paste), down on the raw edges of the spine, and put the durable paper over the paste, leaving the two pieces as square as possible. Gently burnish the pasted edges, and let them dry. Fold the edges of the durable paper to the inside, and fasten them there with more paste.
The left picture is the original Centennial Album. The end paper in each the middle and left picture is the durable paper cut to the full length and width of what you're left with. Then, two strips of any miscellany can be pasted at each of their end edges (the middle of the strips left without paste, so the photo booth album pics can slip in and out, easily).
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Saint Peter's Cross
did not begin as sacrilege
but was inverted to show St. Peter's better side
coptic bound,
altered book
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