The Shape of Things 6

 I had thought that  in 2024, I would reduce my blogging to two days a week - Thursday Thoughts and Sundays. I thought the sometimes it seemed like I was just trying too hard to fill another day, and that didn't make sense to me, so for the first week or two this year I didn't blog on Tuesdays. Funnily enough I have realised I have so much work going on and so much to blog about that here I am back at Tuesday posting. 

It makes sense to blog on Tuesday when I have something to say; and then not to blog onTuesday when I am quiet. So that is my new approach - flexibility! Tuesdays are back whilst ever I have something to say; they will be quiet on those days not much has been happening...

In completing this final book of the exchange, I once again worked with things I already had in the studio - making the book fit the the shape of the things... 

This time I had pages of differing papers that I had removed from books - so they already had stitching holes pierced in them and were of differing sizes. For some reason I thought this might be a challenge that could work.

In the end the notion worked and the book holds, but the stitching result was not as neat or sturdy as I would have liked - I was trying to modify too many stitching styles to fit the different holes. Nevertheless, I persisted and made a book and I have learned so much along the way.

I again worked with Annwyn's blue coloured pages, and added some white Letraset to them to carry the words along.

Interestingly, the words happened just by working with the paper. They read:

of water, mist and dreaming.

The finished books are quite small - 8cm(h) x 10cm(w) x 6cm(d) when standing open. 

 

And only 8cm(h) x 6cm(w) x 2cm(d) when closed and in their wee pale blue paper cover.

So this is farewell to The Shape of Things, such a great theme to enable us to interpret it as desired, and to create a variety of beautiful and treasured books.