Monday, September 17, 2012

two books

 work for the exhibition:
Natural Colours Exhibition 2012 Miyagi-Tohoku
two books about
 north country
bloodroot and violet
shifu, slot and tab, natural dyes
a page spread
spine 
the poem does not want to live inside this book
so it's printed separately.
a small, cube of a book
~and~
Indigo Patterns
shifu with slippery elm bark
stationers binding, sewn on tapes, tacketed
vintage pattern paper, indigo dyed
a nice reading in bed sized book
posted first to oz, then to japan. 

25 comments:

  1. perfection! so wonderful to know they are out in the world after all the amazement of their creation in the north country!

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  2. ooo I especially love the indigo book..... its a real delight

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  3. Alice has left a new comment on your post "two books":

    Oh, the shifu book! So rich.
    alice-i cut and pasted yours in here!

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  4. aimee, you've been a midwife to this one!
    ronnie, thanks, it's light as a feather

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  5. i have seen the two unfolding and they've unfolded gloriously.
    really liked the vid! simple and unpretentious.

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  6. neki, or silly and amateurish! but thanks, really.
    pilgrim, thankyou. i tootled over to your blog and saw some lovely photos!

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  7. beautiful, they so want to be held. I can almost imagine turning the pages.

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  9. you are a wonder! a most exciting trip these wee books are taking.

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  10. diane, YOU are the pilgrim!
    yes, debbie, they do!
    jean, they are so textilish, you would like that!
    nancy, thank you. i am pretty happy with these books.

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  11. Once again astounded by the bravery of your creative process, and these resultant books. In response to your comment above about maybe having chosen "amateur" colors--I'd like to remind you of the origins of the word:
    ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French, from Italian amatore, from Latin amator ‘lover,’ from amare ‘to love.’--and "silly" might as well be a descriptive of the freedom of a child at play, rather than a criticism :-)

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  12. ms. ooh, i meant amateurish video. i feel confident about the books, textiles and books i'm much more at home with!

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  13. Both such beautiful expressions of the north country I feel - they are sculptural and tactile and beg to be held - congratulations!

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  14. Both such beautiful expressions of the north country I feel - they are sculptural and tactile and beg to be held - congratulations!

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  15. "the poem does not want to live inside this book" is one of the most beautiful lines of poetry I've read in a while.

    this is magical, ethereal and earthy too.

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  16. the poem does not want to live inside this book

    this is beautiful poetry in itself.
    Now the book, a magic ethereal and earthy. amazing to me

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  17. Really beautiful Velma. They beg to be held and examined more closely.

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  18. I'm happy I saw these. Japan will love them

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  19. thank you everyone for your thoughts. google has been eating/delaying comments and i'm trying to sort it out.

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