Laura Wait

I recently met Laura Wait, a calligrapher and book artist here in Santa Fe. She showed me a video of her latest book—she’d made it by setting up all the pages on a table and walking slowly around the table using her iphone to capture them. The pages weren’t in order yet, but it was a wonderful eyeful. I don’t really make books like that (mine have a specific order from the beginning), but I have often wanted to show a mockup to someone and don’t have a good way to do that when they aren’t here in Santa Fe. I’m going to experiment with making a video of turning the pages of a book I’m working on and see how that pans out.
In the meantime, here are some pictures from Laura’s book Artis Litterarius (the art of words). She says it’s an homage to words, with covers like altar pieces. The words she’s used concern writing and parts of something (snippet, palimplsest). See all the pages in the book here or check out her website or her books on Vamp & Tramp.