The original unbound book work about nests was this one using rusted papers, and stitching. Like the grey one which followed, but which I blogged about previously, it is an unbound book work, where I invite the reader or viewer to co-create poetry about nests, from the pages I have deliberately left unbound.
Once again they can be re-arranged into 5 haiku poems; they can become single line or triple line poetry; or they can be combined into one lengthy poem.
I used a full stitching line to indicate the 7 syllable pages, just in case folk really wanted to do the haiku poems and enjoyed a shortcut kind of thing.
I had really wanted to gather together a collection of things that were linked or connected to nest making and, the notion of the divided box with that special little extra compartment to hold them came into being.
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I have submitted this book to an exhibition in New Zealand. It would be wonderful if it were selected and could go on show there...
Both of these next books are delightful and so very clever - the interactive nature of them, allowing the reader to compose their own poems is brilliant. They are both so different, each offering its own perspective of "nest" - this one, with the more patterned paper from the rust-dyeing and that tangle of feathers and nest-building materials has me thinking more of the birds flitting back and forth searching the earth for the nest building materials. Best wishes on the exhibition, and I hope to read of some good news on it soon.
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