Rusted reworking in progress

Sometimes things don't end up working like they should.

I had made some all panel works a few years ago for our Pas de Deux exhibition at Noosa Regional gallery.  The works worked well; but on return home and after few years, I discovered that all tapes are not created equal and some of the pages simply detached from the perspex.  Not all of them, but enough for me to think about re-working the single pages.

I wanted to return the pages to the book form; however it is quite difficult to delicately bind single pages - a number of single page bindings are clunky and take up a fair bit of the paper, so I needed to play around and experiment.

Which I did and thoroughly enjoyed myself creating a binding that looked like it could do the trick.

So I started revising the pages and thinking through how the books would be compiled; and how I would attach things. In lots of ways I can enjoy the problem solving process, yet sometimes it drives me bonkers when I can't actually sort out a solution. So far so good this time round.

Here are some shots of the piles of pages on my desk and the lovely colours and marks I am working with.

Inserting a page of goyu paper near the beginning - with its beautiful deckled edge

Now to see if I can hold the spines together somehow, and get the cover working as well. Five small books could be a lovely thing!