Thursday 3 May 2018

18/52 'counting letters' .....



Some books are all about the content and some are really all about the photographs.  This book falls into the latter category - I had such fun playing with the photos and think many of the images are more satisfactory than the actual book.

This book was begun about four years ago when I was taking part in Fiona Dempster's project 'A Letter a Week' - which meant that participating artists produced two alphabet books each year.  I think I made three and this, the fourth, sat half finished until now.  It gave me great joy to complete this book which was actually the first book or artwork in which I used my father's old letraset.  No one knew this of course as the book had been sitting on my desk alongside many other unfinished bits and pieces.  

There is not much to say about the book other than it was designed to have a slow reveal of the letters.  When the cover is opened you can only see three of the letters - 'a', 'g' and 'z'.  I have always enjoyed making books with this slow reveal.

The dimensions of the book are 420mm x 220mm which makes it the largest of the eighteen books I have made thus far in 2018.  Can't believe eighteen weeks have slipped by already.

































7 comments:

  1. love the sense of architecture in both structure and reveal

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    1. Thanks Mo. my father was an architect in the days before computers and although he was my step father, I often feel I had some of my blood in him. Certainly my very young artistic side began first with drawing (all I could see) and then shifted to design as well so I am never surprised when these elements keep returning to my work.

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  2. I looked first, then read and found myself surprised by the dimensions and then by the configuration of the book revealed in the last photo. The sliced views, especially those of the windows and shadows, are masterful and most intriguing.

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    1. Hello Liz. I am glad you explored the photos of the book. In differing lights I could probably have taken heaps more photos but I think these showed some really beautul glimpses. I am tempted to use them as a starting point for some drawings.

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  3. Thanks for the detailed exploration. I'm old enough that I actually used Letraset for work long and long ago. This is far more interesting than anything I did with it. ; ]

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    1. Hello Cathryn. Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving this comment. The letraset comes from a bundle my father had left from his architectural days and with some old film and other bits and pieces, I added it to my ‘stuff’ in the studio after he died. I am enjoying using it in some of these weekly books.

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  4. Hi SB - it is a grand thing to be able to recycle ones art and ideas in such a beautiful way. B

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