I was delighted to hear from Manly Library recently that my books have been selected to take part in this year's Library Artists' Book awards to be held at Manly Art Gallery and Museum. (I hope the even more recent news of a Covid cluster in the Northern Beaches and the management of the spread of the virus doesn't impact too much on this biennial event. I'm sure we will find out with plenty of notice.)
One of my books is the one I have just posted about- "Out of Breath" so will need no introduction. The other book done collaboratively with Jonathon Oxlade is "Change -Transform" and will be the subject of this little post.
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Since Jonathon lives in Adelaide and his creative work takes him all over Australia, our collaboration was done at a distance, with the books traveling by mail and our discussions over the phone - normally a bit clunky but a perfect format for the Covid 19 restrictions.
The book uses many types and shapes and textures of paper put together with just one rule for its construction and intervention- " change/transform the pages without removing any of the paper."
With this in mind, we set about making a little haptic book that works both visually and tactilely. The papers have been waxed, creased, momigammied, folded, torn, and scratched to provide a special vocabulary that needs no words.
The audience is invited to interact physically with the pages so that the book is in a constant state of flux.
3 comments:
Interesting idea and format
Thanks Jac good to see you are still up and about.
Congratulations Jack on being selected for exhibition in the awards. Hope one or both of your books are acquired for their collection.
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