Singapore souvenir 2

Added some machine stitching and a cover to the Singapore book from last week.

Souvenir of Singapore

Paper garnered last week in singapore.

A book about Singapore

This is a book about Singapore. I visited Singapore for a week in June this year. 

It's all neutral colours. That's where it started, but it has grown into a set of stories.

The box used to contain a mobile phone (blackberry in fact) cover. I bought the cover in LA in 2008, on my way to Chicago for iO Chicago's improv summer school.

The box is covered in some maps from an ING Direct Christmas promotion (they sent a little book showing how Christmas was celebrated around the world.

The brown paper which forms the concertina (the core of the book) was the brown paper bag in which I bought a tiny Japanese bell with an amazing tinkle. I bought the bell in Singapore.

While in Singapore I began doodling on the bag, and I also drew and wrote about things which happened while I was in Singapore. This includes words from the music I was listening to. 

I added a coat of wax to the brown paper bag when I was doing encaustic at Sturt Winter School this year. 

I made the brown paper bag into a concertina with pockets on the bottom.

Then the other pages are from 

- a newspaper that I picked up in the Singapore Malay Museum (i liked the writing!). 

- some Japanese and maybe Korean script on rice paper (I think Nicola gave me this paper): chosen for its foreign-ness, but also the colour

- papyrus, which Nicola definitely gave me

All of these are glued inside the concertina pages. They are inserted in the pockets, but they don't come out (the book was too unstable).

It all gives me a sense of my encounter with Singapore: raw and black and white and growing and ragged but straight.

Thinking about what I'd do differently next time, I'm a little concerned that I'm always attracted to less robust materials. Mostly because I'm recycling and upcycling things I find, especially when I travel.

I'm going to play with wax a little more as a means to re-inforce flimsy objects. 

I also am getting better at remembering to put a colophon: this one is on the cover, which is doodled and written on, so you have to know it's there. Which I quite like. Often it's a design element which is a little too intrusive.

Lyon Musee de l'imprimerie

I made this book from a guide to the Lyon Musee de l'Imprimerie (Printing Museum) in September 2013
Somehow I forgot to post about it.
This week I glued back together some pieces of it which were coming apart.
So here it is.

Each "page" is an origami folded square.  It makes a triangle, and then they are glued top to tail. You can still open each  page to see the information that's inside.
I think i made up the design, in that I tried to make from memory something with an origami fold, and couldn't remember it (since I was on holidays in France, I didn't have my Alisa Golding with me!).

 I made a foldable envelope box cover, but it's nowhere near as robust as the book itself. I may get around to reinforcing it. Or not!

Edition Variee - Paris Pix

I had never made more than one copy of a book, and most of my friends in Sydney BAG were making a series for Book Art Object.

So I had a go. Most of my work is from individual ephemera and recycled bits, so they couldn't be identical.

This is an edition variee. (varied edition, right?) All made with the same techniques, just using a different photo (or different parts of the same photo).

Since all of the photos were printed on my dot matrix it was easy to select ones with the right colurs to go along with each other.

Made from photos of Paris printed after my visit there in 2006 ish. Each is a concertina with a few signatures, stitched together. Then each one has its own little belly band. The interior pages are craft paper and sewing pattern paper. I especially like them all lined up!

I'm not really happy with the end product - next time I do this I will colour / decorate the back of the photograph before making it into a book, because the white on the back of the photo is just wrong. 

The book is about 3cm square on each page, and about 1cm thick.

Completed before I went to France in August 2013.

French flag at the arc de triomphe

Video I took in August 2013 of the huge French flag waving in the breeze at the arc de triomphe in Paris



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Only Lyon

double concertina made while i was in lyon a few days ago. made from tourist brochures
5 x 5cm approx 1cm thick.