Category Archives: artist’s books

Friday Night Flicks: Michela Rossetti

Tonight’s flick is an almost meditative look at Michela Rossetti engaged in altering what looks like a large library edition dictionary. The finished work consists of the stack of unbound pages and one hundred paper pyramids.     In looking … Continue reading

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Catch-Up Week

I will be doing some catching up this coming week after spending far too much time selecting images for my Zoom presentation for CBBAG.

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Friday Night Flicks: Friederun Friedrichs

Tonight’s flick is from the Jaffe Center for Book Arts and shows the book Darwin by Friederun Friedrichs. From the text on Youtube: When Darwin formulated the theory of evolution, he relied on his research experience which included the study … Continue reading

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Hither and Thither

A number of things were accomplished this week but the biggest project was selecting the images for my upcoming Zoom presentation for the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild.

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Friday Night Flicks: Print In Real Time Collective

Print in Real Time Collective has produced only one artists’ book, which is shown in the video, but I think much of their output is book-related. In 2019, artist Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde (founder of the print workshop Kunstkvarteret Trykk in … Continue reading

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Friday Night Flicks: Tauba Auerbach

You may have encountered the work of Tauba Auerbach before. Her Colorspace Atlas did the rounds on all the major art/design sites when it was released in 2011. (You can read more about it and see more images on this … Continue reading

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The Februllage 2023 Finish

Last week’s post was all about making a Memory Pocket, so I saved the images of the week’s daily collages until today. Here’s my completed boustrophedon/meander book for both #guylainelab and #februllage2023.

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Friday Night Flicks: Beetle Mania

Tonight’s flick is another from the Artist’s Books Unshelved series hosted by Yuka Petz, and featuring works from the Cynthia Sears Collection. (There is a thirty second intro that you can easily skip if you have watched episodes from this … Continue reading

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How to Make a Memory Pocket

This is my Memory Pocket for World Book Night, April 23, 2023. It was mailed to Bristol this week and should get there in plenty of time.

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Memory

I have been working on another piece about childhood memories. (You can find a DIY version of Fragile, a previous memory-based work, here.) I am using a folded structure that I created four years ago. This model has been floating … Continue reading

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