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Binding • 29 x 20.3 x 2
Bound in dark-grey heavy-grained morocco over basrelief
boards to fit the 'chemise' interior - both worked
together to achieve positive/negative fitting. Leather
rust/ochre-coloured with casein tempera. The 'yap'
edges at head, tail and foredge are rigid, enclosing the
book completely. Doublures and endpapers are stained
and worked with acrylics based on the colours of sand
and ironstone, fading towards the text block. Head coloured
to match. Silk head and tail bands match each
end, the leather modelled over them to form thick caps.
Container
Chemise • 32 x 22.5 x 4
Bas-relief worked together with the
book, with overlapping edges, lined with
brushed with casein tempera colour. Spine stencilled
in grey, using the same typeface
book. The outer covers are of handmade textured
with acrylics.
Slipcase • 33 x 23.8 x 5
Shaped around the angled edges of the
covered in handmade paper treated as
edges of grey morocco, interior padded
grey lining fabric, grey petersham draw Stencilled
split title on front; reverse has a central
grey morocco.
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Concept
The hidden potential of a plain-looking fascinating
- crack it open and its history
whether a fossil or layers of forming.
based on a stone which had split cleanly concentric
bands of powdery rusty colour,
with dark metallic greys. It made me think,
the enclosing covers around the book secrets,
and the act of prising it open. The
book, its binding, chemise and slipcase, became
one of interdependence during the process
- one thing leading to another. The
small so the change of scale made a fairly
statement in relation to the images inside,
of contrasting pebbles and stones.
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