A Note to All MICAns

Hey! GET THE ISSUE OF JUXTAPOSITIONS THAT'S OUT NOW!

Flip to page 12...

And read the top article! There I am! Hooray!

To all non-micans: Click on this link an download the April issue. It takes some finagling but I figured out, so I have faith in you too!

And for the really lazy, here's a screenshot. Click for hi-res. :D

Do-Si-Do French Album Book

Hey all,

So this is a project that finally came to fruition. It's a do-si-do french door album. For those unfamiliar with these terms, that means a double-sided, double-doored album.

STEPS TO VISUALIZATION:

1) Imagine an album. Normal binding with two screws to hold it in place.
2) Imagine this album, instead of having a normal cover, has two doors, like two french doors, that you pull out and open towards you.
3) Imagine this album has no back, but two doors awaiting you to open them on the other side.

Still can't imagine it? Here are some photos to help:







This book is filled with Ingres black paper. One side of the book contains photos of my mother, and the other photos of my father. It will be up on my Etsy soon as a blank one. Speaking of Etsy, I've been making tons of books for that thing. Please feast your eyes:

www.etsy.com/shop/katartsis

Thanks!

New Book and Better Pictures!

Hey all,

So here's a new book I made the other day for a friend of mine as a birthday present. Sewn on tapes with vellum on each side to protect the text block. Behold the beautiful paper. Best perk of working retail ever.




And here are better pictures of everything that I've posted in the past semester. Be sure to check it all out. I know it's a lot but it all looks really good.

This one a cutout book with memories of Venice in it.

Book of Venezia (detail)
Handbound Leather Hollowback filled with Cut Outs
Summer 2009

Book of Venezia (detail)
Handbound Leather Hollowback filled with Cut Outs
Summer 2009

This next one is a leatherbound hollowback with lace sewn between the pages, inspired by the island of Burano in Venice.

Lacebook
Leatherbound hollowback
Fall 2009

Lacebook (detail)
Leatherbound hollowback
Fall 2009

Lacebook (detail)
Leatherbound hollowback
Fall 2009

This next one is the Ogden Nash poetry book that I cut lines out of.

Good intentions (detail)
An Altered Book originally by Ogden Nash
Fall 2010

Good intentions (detail)
An Altered Book originally by Ogden Nash
Fall 2010


This next one is my final project that's talked about in the post after this one. It's called Eight Points to Eternity and is about the meaning of the number eight as a mystical and symbolic number that has to do with eternity and immortality. It's an altered medical dictionary bound to form an eight-pointed star.

Eight Points to Eternity
Altered Medical Dictionary
Winter 2010

Next up is my book called Traces of Distinguishing: Looking at Identity Anonymously. It was a series of photographs I took of people's birthmarks and tattoos. I took them up close so that the face of the person is obscured. I was interested in how these are thought of as identifying marks, but up close they could really belong to anyone. It was my first attempt at bookmaking. It's bound on watercolor paper because of its sponge-like qualities that make it similar to skin. I had people write quotes about how they feel about their birthmarks and tattoos on skin-tone colored paper, which was also hand-stitched into the book.

Traces of Distinguishing
Photography book handbound with silver gelatin prints
Fall 2009

This next one was an assignment to do a traditional accordion bound book, but I just couldn't be traditional. I thought it would be much more fun to bind a bunch of fortune tellers. Each one has fortunes that I made up printed on them. The first fortune teller on top of the pile contains the colophon.

What’s Your Fortune (detail)
Fortune tellers accordion bound with ribbon
Spring 2011

What’s Your Fortune
Fortune tellers accordion bound with ribbon
Spring 2011


Finally, this is my What Happens When You Are Stabbed. It is stab-bound (haha!) with red embroidery floss on Japanese Kozo-Goya Rice Paper. I printed on the inside and there are small windows peeking through the pages to show the viewer the chemicals that their brain would release if they were stabbed. I have embroidered the chemical structures inside as well, also using the red embroidery floss.

What Happens When You Are Stabbed
Japanese rice paper ink-jet printed and stab bound with embroidery
Spring 2011