Recently Catherine and I took a table at the Leeds International Artist's Book Fair.
'Twas very good fun and we sold stuff and met some great folks and generally had a rather nice time.
The work I exhibited was a series of 'Nestbooks.' These are handmade felt shapes with found and printed text inside. (Photos are close to actual size)
Fairytale nestbook - handmade felt, found text.
'Nevermore,' nestbook - handmade felt, printed text by Edgar Allan Poe
FairytaleII nestbook- handmade felt, found text.
Tao nestbook - handmade felt, printed quotes from various Taoist text .------------------------------------------
So here are some images of the books I made recently. This one is one of a series of ten made using text taken (literally) from Rosamund Miles' The Women's History of the World. In 2007 and I saw an advert in the FT about the Women's Forum, an organisation that aims to promote women's "economic and social" voice. The sponsors of the Women's Forum are companies like Cartier, Club Med, Orange phones etc. I think they only want to promote the rights of women because they can make more money if 51% of the world's population are able to earn sensible wages!
Found text machine stitched onto cotton canvas
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Snow White is a small A6 book, really a kind of poem, playing with the refrain of the story. Stitched silk on front. All text typewritten.
" Hair black as ebony, skin white as snow, lips red as bloodSkin black as ebony, lips white as snow, hair red as blood
Lips black as ebony, hair white as snow, skin red as blood"
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2 comments:
hi Kruse, been wanting to tell you how much i love your books, especially the snow white one. wish i came up with it. so simple yet flips one into different worlds.
p.s. i am really liking this current background color. the text color and size are really easy to read on it too. excited to see new things going on here and also your new writing blog!
Hello Susan! Thanks a lot for the lines you wrote on my blog.
Your books are amazing, my fave is the nest book. Cheers! :D
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