I have found both the brain space and time to start on the second book of Silences. I sat down and discovered that past-me had been very good and cut all the pages, the end sheets and the covers for the second book; and that she had also done the stitched line pen marks on the cover as well, so all that present-me had to do was print! Ha ha.
I thought I would get a run at a couple of prints, but first up I did have words with the more recent-past-me who as she packed up the studio had pulled apart the chase that she had used to print the first book.
This was not a total disaster; but it did mean present-me had to spend some time trying to find a photograph of the set-up and then try to re-build it such that the books could be printed looking very much the same as the first ones by getting all the spacing and alignments right.
Funny the things you think about under pressure - I was clearly trying to be tidy, when in fact I made my life a bit trickier.
I did however manage to re-build it and here is the table with work about to begin.
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One down, only fifteen to go! Plus a title page or two, a colophon, and a thank you page; but we have begun!
Oh, I love that when we've take taken the time for advance prep and it proves to help ourselves so much in the future - it's like a gift to ourselves. The first image, with the photos of the print trays really caught my eye, firstly because it is such a delightful graphic image and though not a typeset printer I've always been intrigued by the tools and process and secondly, because I thought they were empty of text and as such a perfect metaphor for silence, for nothing left to say.
ReplyDeleteI love when our "past" and "future" selves come together like this - it's always such a gift when we realize at some point along the way we took care of something, knowing it would ease the way down the road. I love the images of the type set-up trays - they always look so intriguing and the thought occurred to me that when empty they are a kind of metaphor for another kind of silence.
ReplyDeleteHere I am again discovering the comments hidden by blogger - so sorry. Your comments are so beautiful and thoughtful and it is so nice when we find we have thought our way through things and left little notes and reminders to our future selves to make their life easier. I truly felt it with this one that I had cleared my own path a bit without knowing... And I love how you saw the silence in the type tray...How interesting as I write that, that maybe we can also see silent???
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