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Binding • 23.7 x 20.4 x 2.5
Bound in dark-green morocco, with sanded highlights,
over bas-relief boards of overlapping millboard layers.
The alum-tawed doublures overlap onto the front and
back and are impressed into the lightly toned endpapers,
and the swirling raised surfaces are highlighted
with gold and palladium. The head is gilded in gold
and palladium echoing the swirling motifs. Silk head
and tail bands match each end.
Container • 3.2 x 22.3 x 6
Vertical draw box, opening sideways, formed of layers
of millboard, covered with paper, stained dark green
and sealed. The head and foredge have inserts of polycarbonate
revealing the head and 'waterfall' leaves of
the text. Mossy green velvet lines the box.
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Concept
There is a waterfall nearby to which I frequently walk
with my dog. It is governed by the rainfall in the west
coast of Scotland, and just as fickle. At times it is a
mere trickle and the sounds are tiny and gentle, at
others they deepen as turbulent skeins of white water
tinged with brackish hues of peat rush down the rock
face. Over hundreds of years the rocks have been
worn and washed into a downward direction creating
overlapping dark green and blackened layers. The
white fall reminds me of the text of the book - the
foredge at times thin and closed, at others wide open
and ready to spill its contents. The head is more like
the surface of the burn just before tumbling over, the
sunlight filtering through the birches from the west
dappling the water with gold and silver, and catching
the swirling surfaces as they fling their way around
the fallen rocks below. Harmony and contrast: the
hard rock and the fluid element, interdependent and
changed by each other; the fluid mind, sounds of
movement, fanning leaves of paper, the ripple of
water; the physical form of the book referring to the
stones and rocks which support us. This is where my
journey with Stone began.
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