I have been skirting around and around this book since Friday's play day with Fiona where we began our second collaborative book. It was much more fun playing about with possibilities but I realised that I actually did need to start turning some of those possibilities into realities.
Though I love the mica I could see no reason to have it sitting upon the page - other than the fact it just looked delicious! I felt a little the same with the aluminium shim so I have decided that they need to overlap each other and that there needs to be some work done into the aluminium to give it a reason to belong on the page too.
My father loved birds, and trees (which I have suggested in a couple of the pages I have been working on) but most of all he loved the ocean. We had a gorgeous time together before he died down on the coast. It was wild and windy and the ocean was grey and thumping. I will be able to use that love of the ocean in other pages using thread to suggest tide marks and at the same time have them being a connection between the pages. Connections in families.
A long way to go still, but at least I have made a start.
Wonderful - I just love your work - wish I could see it for real.
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Thanks Diane. I know what you mean and find it to be more true with books than paintings and etchings - you really cannot get a real sense of a book without seeing it, holding it and playing through the pages. No matter how much you try to photograph it, it is difficult to convey the real sense of an artist's book two dimensionally.
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Alluring.
Just a fees words that come to mind viewing your post.
More please!
thanks Jennifer .... there will be more of course as the books come together and then meet late this month. by then you will probably be saying 'enough already'! Just joking. I know how much we all enjoy watching the processes we go through :-)
DeleteI love your thinking and the way you are working thru this - and the results so far are stunning! I feel far less coherent in mine, but hope that the story becomes clearer soon...
ReplyDeletethanks Fiona - I must say that this process is exhausting for me. I think it is because I am trying to make this book into a 'adieu' for my father and as such trying to make a story that is imbued with meaning and relevance. Much harder than just going where the ideas take me ......I am happy with yesterday's effort and it has given me some direction. Hope your book is coming along - remember, out books don't always have to tell a story. They just are. Mind you - your words always bring a story now that I think of it!
DeleteS- love the overlapping and the marks that tread their way through the pages and through both the hard and soft stuff. B
ReplyDeleteI am really enjoying this play with softness and metals. Might be the beginning of something new! thanks Barry - I also like that you get that I am threading my way through the hard and soft stuff ........ so true for the moment in particular.
DeleteYou and Fiona are definitely soulmates, Susan. The delicious subtleties of your work are out of this world.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your gorgeous comment Jo. There is certainly something very special Fiona and I have found between us .... more than just a close friendship indeed. A trust and respect and yet deeper .... a strong resonance. Aren't we lucky.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous work Susan....beautiful texture and surface....everything is integrating in a really lovely way!
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