That First Class…

Daniel Kelm: Capsicum RedMany of my friends remember their first book arts classes very fondly — especially my friend Sharon. She took a class with Daniel Kelm that involved rivets and other metal closures and binding methods. My first class was with Kumi Korf, and I often return to the books I made in her classes for a jolt of inspiration.
Sharon recently sent me a link to an exhibition of Kelm’s work at Smith College called Poetic Science. There are lots of pictures of his binding work, including the one pictured, Capsicum Red, a collaboration with Tim Ely. His inventive bindings are always fun to look at and contemplate — especially the ones that move and can be reconfigured (there are videos of some of those, like this one here called Religio Mathmatica).