My friend Sharon & I went to the Guild of Bookworkers traveling member exhibit, Marking Time, at the SF Main Library the other day. As we walked into the library, Sharon said “I’ve looked at the exhibit online, will it be any better in person?” The answer was decidedly mixed.
One of the books that hardly got a notice online mesmerized me in the case — Andrew Huot’s Walks with Rosie. What he says about it:
This book chronicles two weeks of daily walks with my dog in our Philadelphia neighborhood, marking the routes and occurrences on the way. The city is reduced to line, shape, and color, and transparent papers reveal the echoes of yesterday and an allusion to tomorrow.
The maps seem bigger in person, and the transparency made me pause and think about my own daily perambulations around town and my neighborhood. You can see more detailed images here or visit Huot’s website for more of his bookworks.
