Sunday 3 July 2016

Book in a jar

After fiddling, experimenting and several strops I finally came to the conclusion that trying to print a 6 x 84cm image wasn’t going to work as a 4 colour separation gum arabic print. I’m not really sure why I thought it could in the first place.

Having decided that digital was going to be the way forward it meant accepting that I was working with cartridge paper.
I explored various closures and ways of attaching the scroll to dowel then realised the paper height was the right size to fit in the jar I use to mix my gum arabic in. Given the subject matter it seemed to make perfect sense.  So I bound the short edges with copper to finish them off and made a belly band with the image extending over it to hold the scroll shut.
It is intended as a comment on the practice of killing for collecting, such as big game hunting, birds egg collecting etc, rather than on the serious academic study of butterflies and moths. Not at all what I thought it was going to be when I started but I’m still pleased with it.

4 comments:

  1. ...and pleased is what you should be ! Looks great and just makes me want to get it out of the jar and marvel at it.

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    1. Thanks. Its not what I envisaged, and I still want to play with interfacing but it will do.

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  2. Brilliant on so many fronts Jac! First of all, I love your use of the word strop to describe theosemoments when...

    But mostly what a fabulous resolution and such a fascination that it isn't what you planned but it is so perfectly right. Love love love it!

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    1. Thanks. I like it when a book decides on its own direction.

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