A huge learning of skills day - practising creating pockets
using paper and lining materials - making parallels and connections between
tailoring and the world of experimental book production. Thinking about
repetition and multiple elements brought together within and joined to a
structure, a combination of pages set in a spine and the idea of the swatch.
Really excited about the possibilities presented by the box pleat and I've been enjoying thinking about its relationship to the concertina fold - similar but different - time and space bending in on itself - spaces of folded time rather than the clear and relentless linear march of the leporello. large rolls from MEAL.
Really excited about the possibilities presented by the box pleat and I've been enjoying thinking about its relationship to the concertina fold - similar but different - time and space bending in on itself - spaces of folded time rather than the clear and relentless linear march of the leporello. large rolls from MEAL.
I like your phrase spaces of folded time ....
ReplyDeleteI wonder if time is linear or is it not circular as the seasons come round again. I see the year as an oval with summer at the top....the rings inside tree trunks - each ring represents a year....and when I revisit an incomplete art project and begin working on it again its as if I have come round full circle ....
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