all things bookart
Posted in Accordion Book, Bookart, Exhibitions, Flag Book, Letterpress on Oct 28th, 2013
I received a letter from the Public Library this week letting me know that my book ‘A Sun that Rises’ has been awarded ‘Honorable Mention’ in the Artist Book category in the Library’s 2013 Art of the Book show. ‘A sun that rises’ is part of the ‘Al-Mutanabbi Street project’. The Library’s website is showing […]
Posted in Bookart, Letterpress, Looking for Matthew on Oct 22nd, 2013
… still working on ‘Looking for Matthew’. It has not been easy for me to continue working on this project. Of course there are always those excuses with ‘all the other deadlines’ but then… if I really wanted and if this had a deadline I would have had finished it long time ago. Six of […]
Posted in Accordion Book, Bookart, Exhibitions on Oct 17th, 2013
The book is based on the following motivational quote : “Every day in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster that the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. […]
Posted in Accordion Book, Bookart, Exhibitions on Oct 15th, 2013
Why was it such a challenge for me to create a book using ten cards from a deck? I started with a whole different set of ‘pages’ for this book, using the story of the gazelle and the lion. I tried to bring everything together but it did not ‘feel right’. Something was missing. And […]
Posted in Accordion Book, Bookart, Exhibitions on Oct 13th, 2013
This was not easy – I was close to call it off and just not finish this book. But then I did it and now I am happy that I did not sleep the last week and worked entirely on this project. And guess what? I knew about it since April … the story of […]