No Worry - Book a Week Project
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© 2009
- Dimensions (in inches): 3 x 2.875 x .75
- Materials:paper, book board, leather, adhesive, transfer toner, ink
- Collection of: artists collection (available)
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I made this book soon after I watched a demonstration of Lacunose given by Paul Delrue. "[Lacunose] is a technique developed by Paul .... The effect is created by building up a collage of different coloured leathers, pared very thinly, and then sanding the leather so that the different colours start to appear through each other. The results can be surprising and unexpected and can create stunning effects." I used the technique for the cover boards, then bound the book as a board book with an exposed spine. Text is transfer toner over cyanotype; page edges tinted with metallic pigment.
From Cole Swensen's collection New Math (William Morrow & Co., New York, 1988) which won the National Poetry Series for 1987.
No, worry about nothing
but the chiseling
of hills into distance
in the slight haze
and sleep lost over color
no two ever the same
the wringing hands
float ashore amazed.
Worry about beauty.
It can sell you anything.
Lakes collect in the
chambers of the heart
where the sailboats are made
of flying fish about
the size of match heads.
Sleep can be lost as
easily as a house key,
the shock can consume
at any moment
if the hills are not rising
weather is wearing them down
and you are driving
north in the late afternoon
or holding your eyes
in your hands like addresses.
yakyak