It's not often I land where I have, which is I have made a book and I don't know what it is. I guess that reflects my time at the cottage a bit - I am less purposeful and more explorative; more open to trying a bit of this or that simply because I don't have a full set up or I have fewer commitments or goals to hit.
So I started painting marks with an acrylic ink onto some lovely kraft card squares I had brought with me. Payne's Grey and White.
Not knowing where I was going, I turned them over and kept going.
And then I cut them down and put them together and they were a BIG book - heavy and hard to handle, so B suggested maybe make two books. So I looked for some paper or card to make extra pages and found some beautiful Vintage Paper Company paper which I could use; as well as a test page where I had laid out all the stitching mark for my peg piece - as well as some test stitching.
I embossed some lines I had previously cut for my first book in my exchange The Shape of Things with Annwyn way back in 2022 into some black paper/card I had here, and then stitched them using some thread that a friend had passed along to me after her mother died. All together a compilation of things that I found along the way.
Here they each are standing - quite firm paper means they stand well!
And a selection of openings.
Interesting.
The similarities to your previous work are striking - perhaps you weren't quite done with that design, those types of marks, just yet? Sometimes I find the urge to create, for the sake of the work, is all there is - the why comes when it will.
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