In an effort to have a less taxing project for October, Kristin (of Space Paste Press) and I decided that we would have a project that would only take five days. This was appealing because we had been delayed a bit in meeting that month and did not want to fall behind. The project would include a series of renderings of something that may change over the five day period. Each of these five images would be done in a different medium: graphite, ink, colored pencil, water color and print. The binding would be a simple one allowing the focus…

Going back to one of the earliest book formats, the Space Paste Press and Spring Leaf Press collaboration for September was a scroll that had a science theme. I chose to depict the reproduction cycle of ferns, a plant that unrolls when it grows. The closure for the scroll is a wooden button and hemp cord. The scroll is backed with burlap and the imagery is put together with paste and paint. The illustrations were printed on tissue with an inkjet printer and layered with paste. The fern, layered behind the small images, is cut out of a thin green…

A book format that I continue to revisit is the tunnel book for its playfulness not only in appearance but also for the fun I have putting them together. When Kristin, from Space Paste Press, suggested that we make a tunnel book for the August intellectual collaboration I jumped at the idea. In order to narrow down the scope of the project, we decided that the book will center around one line of text and stay within 5 to 6 frames. I had some prints left over from a graphic design class I took a while ago. I printed the…

The intellectual collaboration for June was an accordion book with a narrative theme, specifically documentation of some sort. I chose to visually document a trip I took to India. I knew I wanted to use only image based narration, and immediately a presentation I attended last year came to mind. During the College Book Arts Association meeting in Bloomington at the beginning of this year, I sat in on a talk given by Betsy Davids about palm leaf books she studied in India. These books are heavily illustrated with lots of detailed images all done by hand, scratched into the…