From Bed to Book

When we resumed our meetings after lock down one of the NWBA members suggested the theme for the next set of books should be our journey to get there. I admit I was sceptical about it at first.

But on the way home I realised that medieval strip maps gave the same view of the world as sat navs – you go in a straight line and everything else, rivers, junctions, etc, is an adjunct to that.

 I developed a diagrammatic record of the journey from my bed to the room in the library where we meet. 

 I had been intending to make a scroll but when experimenting with structures for a different project I realise that an accordion folded triangular book would take this straight journey and make it go round corners and up and down hills.

It is essentially a long acrylic monoprint and is a bit springy. So it needs keeping in a slip case. 

More Dragons

 Although I finished it before Christmas I realised that I hadn’t photographed the finished dragon book. 

 The collagraph plate made 2 lots of separate heads, tails, and bodies facing in opposite directions. I used the Paul Johnson hinge method of attaching the pieces together. It may be a fiddly way of making what is essentially an accordion book but it means that there are no folds which can wear over time.