Showing posts with label accordion style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accordion style. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Now I See

The title for this horizontal book comes from a favourite poem of Margaret Atwood's called Resurrection [link here] that I used in a video years ago. She, very kindly, had given me permission to do so. At that time I loved taking video stills and reworking them in the studio and on the computer. With this book I wanted to solve some of the technical dramas I have with the accordion structure and also see how large was workable as a book. So the way I made and attached the cover had to change. I glued just the back page to the back cover and I like it, it works, but the size is still an issue. Some of the pages are strong and some are weaker [all the pages are test prints that I have been gathering as I clean out my flat files] and they can't seem to stand evenly; an easily solved problem if I do another large book, use very heavy paper or back each page with another colour. What I haven't figured out is how to do this. If anyone has any ideas I would be thrilled to hear them.


Playing with the folds, accordion structure, Now I See, 2013

more combinations, Now I See, 2013
back page leading to 1st page, Now I See, 2013
cover structure, Now I See, 2013, as you can see I backed the 1st page with the paper I used for the cover to make it more rigid



cover, Now I See, 2013

Friday, September 20, 2013

A Longer Book of Horizontal Ideas

Another accordion structure, again made from mostly horizontal images. And again not paying any attention to page width, which does add some excitement when it comes to bind it. Some pages act like pop outs, some pages are not the same height  and some pages break the accordion structure. Some of the pages have words and poems from my notebooks. The covers, which have a spine, are glued front and back. Next time I will glue only the pages to the back cover. Love this experimenting. This book ended up being 7.25 x 9.5 in. 24 pages with 4 inserts.


Near the beginning of A Longer Book...
towards the end of A Longer Book....
One of the pop out pages
Uneven spine and folded pages

Cover of A Longer Book....