It clearly takes creases well; my hope is that it will also be firm enough to stand under its own steam (as it were). I want to make a book in the same way as I made the last one. They're called 'maze books'; I found them in Shereen LaPlanz's classic book on book binding, 'Cover To Cover'. I've made quite a few of them before; there's a variation of a maze book in my studio, made from hand made paper which has been painted with encaustic paints. And here is the book, cut and folded :
And yes, it stands by itself. Phew...given that I'd made the cut, and the creases, so it was irredeemably a book, though I could have turned it into a series of very small pieces, like a jigsaw...that would have been interesting too (hold that thought). This one has been made to stand in a different way to the one you saw yesterday, a bit of variety is a good thing, and somehow, this one is more mysterious than the other, and needs this structure to reflect that. Now, though, I have to decide what else to do with it; it has a distinctly unfinished feel to it. I think there's a need to add words, I'm just not sure what they are, though I think they will be snipped from book or newspaper text, small in size, one to a page. Does it need more than that? I don't think so. It's interesting to look at it from different angles. I said in the earlier post that I thought it would be more interesting like this, than as a flat piece of stitch, and I think that's the case. I think it's a landscape piece... the words will reflect that...perhaps a poem, word by word, that reveals itself as you contemplate the piece. Now, all I have to do is find the words.
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