This book is from Lauren Lavender’s Interactive Paper Project. She’s got more books and interesting paper work here.
Interactive Paper Project
Category: Bookmaking
Flag Book: Alligator Hunt
After seeing several flag books in the Santa Fe Book Group’s exhibit, I’ve been fooling around with a flag book I made years ago and was never happy with. I’m still not. The other day I ran across the flag book below on Etsy by Deep Sea Press. The author says
This one-of-a-kind hand made artist book features an image of a 400-year old engraving by the french artist Jacques LeMoynes entitled How the Indians Kill Alligators (Alligator Hunt). LeMoyne’s drawings of the Timicua indians depicted all aspects of the lives of the native Northern Floridians including hunting…Flag books have so much movement to them I wanted to feature an image in which movement was central.
And that made me realize why my own flag book was unsuccessful—the images I’m using don’t convey movement. See more books and by Deep Sea Press here.
Perception: Matchbox Book
My latest matchbox book: Perception. Claude Monet made a sequence of water lily paintings at the end of his long career as an artist, from 1897 to his death in 1926. Apparently beset by cataracts, he had a special way of seeing his world. This tiny book in a matchbox shows the progression of these paintings over time, highlighting how radically perception changes what we see. More here.
Exposed Spines
Jody Alexander makes fabric books that cry out to be touched. She’s a bookbinder and paper maker in Santa Cruz, CA. These are from a series she calls “Exposed Spines.” These are new to me— the ones I’ve seen in person are from a series of “Ghost Books”. I wrote about those back in 2008 and there’s more about them here. And finally there’s more on Jody’s website
Pride and Prejudice in a Matchbox
Another miniature that fits in a matchbox—this tiny handmade matchbox contains Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, illustrated and much abridged. Most of the illustrations are by Hugh Thomson, from a version of Pride and Prejudice published in 1894. I’ve rearranged them, added bits of background scenery and wrote the abridged story.
The book is 1-3/8″ x 2″. The matchbox is 1-1/2″ x 2-1/8″. There are 9 spreads. See more here.
Ampersand: A Matchbox Book
Another miniature book that fits in a matchbox. This one includes a little book with fun facts about the ampersand and a wooden ampersand attached to the bottom of the box. Along the bottom of the book pages are examples of beautiful ampersands. And you can unfold it to reveal the timeline evolution of the glyph. See more here.
