"A road less travelled"with be my 6th for the year so I'm still on target for my "one a month". I made this little codex book for my daughter Katie for her 40th birthday and it refers in an abstract way to various aspects of her life so far. Most of her work has been in education with Australian indigenous children and the images and stains and waxes refer to this with a bird's eye perspective.
The images were made from graphite rubbings of a didactic plinth for a sculpture of Pastor Sir Douglas and Lady Gladys Nicholls in Parliament gardens in Melbourne. These images on ordinary photocopy paper from our hotel were then stained and waxed with turmeric, xanthorrhoea resin and bees wax when I returned back to my studio to seal in my drawn mixed media images.
The tracing paper interleaving to stop the waxy pages sticking together, has been pierced and torn to look both forward to the next or back to the last page and get little glimpses of the future or past.
The title refers to the way Katie's life is a little different to that of most of her friends and peers.
8 comments:
this is delightful jack!
J'aime!
Thank you ronnie and Nathalie, my daughter loved it too. I think it helps to have a "real" personal reason for making a book sometimes.
What a lucky girl your daughter is Jack receiving such a wonderful book for her birthday.
Thanks Helen, I'm lucky too to have such appreciative and visually literate daughters otherwise it wouldn't be quite so special.
Beautiful! Each side has a view of others. Great work!
Best regards
Solveig
Thank you Solveig. It is always almost as nice to look forward as to the past. Particulary nice if you can see all three - past, present and future at the one opening.
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