From the collection - Tide Marks

As mentioned, it is a time of travel, so I don't have much new work to show and share just yet.  So it's back to the collection and another beautiful book.

This one is called Tide Marks #3 and is by Alice Fox.

As a fan of rust and soft and gentle marks, I was slightly bewitched when I saw this book online and am forever grateful I managed to get myself organised and purchase it.

For me,  it is so often about the words, and I love that she has included words in these soft and drifty pages.

It has a lovely soft olive-grey book cloth cover and is a concertina style book - slowly unravelling and unfurling to show the long tide-line and its marks.

I love the columns of blurred words and the rusty and faded marks. Words that are there, but not there...

And the hand-stitching that feels like the trails of small aquatic visitors who have wandered along the wet and shiny sand as the waves retreat.

The rusty forms that almost become organic with their soft blurred edges.

And then not. A remnant, a reminder that people have passed this way as well.

There is a lovely sense of continuity with this book - it gently runs together and tells its tale and I feel calmed just looking upon it. I am walking slowly at the turn of the tide, head down, examining the minutiae and the magic that is on show at my feet, appearing and disappearing, receding and renewing...