S a flag book from Tuscany

This single flag book is made from photos taken in Tuscany and Vienna in august 2005.
The photos have been displayed on my walls at home and the sun leached the yellows out of them which has left a beautiful lilac.
This is my first single flag. I made several mistakes initially but in the end it worked out!

Brequereque - a concertina

See the history of this piece of work here and here.
Called brequereque because it's a reasonably unique name on one of the street maps encausticed into this concertina. The map is a tourist map of Vence, which is just outside of Nice in France. A lovely little village, where I stayed for a few days in 2012

Today i secured each end of the concertina into the box. Now when you pull on the ribbons it opens like a real concertina or accordion.
Added some of my fimo buttons.

I like how the light shows through the paper - the encaustic wax scars the paper in some way that makes it translucent. Adds another layer of texture and pattern to the work!

Above is the "back" of the piece.

And below is the colophon with details of the materials I made it with.

Mywalit

Maroon concertina

Secret messages

orange concertina with purple ribbon

A living stack of concertina

This is the end of a large encaustic piece I did in January.
Last week I made some tiny books from it.
This week I made the rest - books about 1 inch (the width of my metal ruler).
They looked so good after I folded them that I'm planning to keep them in a pile somehow. More to come when I work out what that looks like.

 These pictures are me playing with the cut up pieces before folding them.