Cat book

I have been making cat books where the cats throughout the book share ears and eyes, I made one coloured and one black and white using the cut-out pieces to collage extra details on. 

Colour and cut

I made these, 'colour and cut' books as a demonstration last week and then went to document them further on a sunny day. I loved the way the bright sunlight added a whole new dynamic of shadow play to them.

Yinfan Huang II

Yinfan Huang's handmade book about mornings in Brighton where she attended a summer camp when traveling. Now she is living and working in New York. This book is about Yinfan's memories in Brighton and incorporates a poem that she wrote about her morning ritual in this seaside city.

Magdalena Haras

I love the concept of this book by Magdalena Haras who has taken excerpts from 'The long Walk' by Slawomir Rawicz and made them into a book that is also a pair of shoes. Magdalena's interpretation alludes to secrecy with the information hidden within the soles, the shoes are the perfect vehicle for this story.

'Walking a mile in someone else's shoes' or looking at things from the point of view of others is a strong belief of mine and this illustrates it poetically and perfectly. 

Beata Wehr IV

I love these waxed relics, the translucence and transparency, adding to the mystery of the thoughts and findings that went into these books by Beata Wehr 

Beata Wehr III

Some examples from Beata Wehr's mixed media books. Beata lives now in America in Tucson in her books she explores her identity and journey through life.
Beata Wehr's books are rich in texture, found objects, stitch, paint and gathered thoughts and memories.

"I found artists’ books to be especially useful in talking about the issues of identity, immigration, and dislocation.  I like their intimate format, and the fact that many media could be combined on the pages, creating layers of images.  My books are usually bilingual, or semi-bilingual and I often mix images with writing, pieces of newspapers, found objects and other elements reflecting the everyday life in Tucson as well as my links to Poland.  I try to combine two different experiences from two different worlds in this “in between” situation.  I started to think that it is possible, although my native life, language, landscape, culture are so different then my life here in Tucson."
Beata Wehr

Yusuke Oono

The stunningly beautiful and magical Christmas Book by Yusuke Oono. You can see pictures of Yusuke  making it at fabcafe here.

Evelina Oliveira

 

 

Evelina Oliveira is a Portuguese artist, printmaker and illustrator who made this magnificent book, she is an illustrator / printmaker who blends media and makes magic.

Alison Worman

Alison Worman is a recent graduate from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Her interests and work is diverse and exciting to see; gardening, sewing, weaving, animation, printmaking and book arts. Alison has developed a body of work exploring human relationships, longing and nurturing, hands and limbs have a strong presence. I thought this work with paint and cut outs was very clever, funny and appealing.

Planning . . .

. . . to have a weekend of creative fun and to attempt to make some long promised mail art for some treasured friends. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Carmen Praxedes

Carmen Praxedes has lost her book! This wonderful book is on Cimba's photostream it is a collaboration between her and Tso. This is a book project made for Edizioni Fantasma, where art books are made and then abandoned for new owners to discover them, this beautiful book was abandoned in a park in Rome, did you find it?

Lisa Kokin

Lisa Kokin has a keen sense of humour, I love the fact that the very beautiful Panacea series is constructed from a self-help books. (images) "We are all fine just as we are, its the books that need to change." Lisa Kokin.

"It is clear that Kokin relishes both the challenge and the joy of using all parts of the book: the paper can be pulped and shaped; the mull sewn into tapestries; the covers stuffed into football-petaled flowers or sewn into quilt, and the headbands turned into flowers. these are all talismans and tokens of hope and beauty and change and reminders that we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously." Alisa Golden

Andi Arnovitz

I have been amazed at the power of Andi Arnovitz's work today. Her garments are incredible and I loved the idea of these Matryoshka portraits, what an amazing way this would be to produce a family tree. This piece is called 'A Quiet row of Women' and is a hand bound book of the poem in Hebrew and English with five wooden dolls wrapped in paper mache.

Stephanie Davidson

Stephanie Davidson's 'Button Book' is a tiny wonder, and one of her many artists books.

Books, Books, Books II

Above: some pages from my textile Sketch Book
Inspired by the wonderful textile book of Louise Bourgeois, I have started my own, for fun and as an example for my textile students.

I am loving it as I don't know how anything is going to turn out, so I have the naive pleasure of innocent creation for creations sake . . . long may it continue.