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| Aunt Elise's gate |
The book-of-the-week for Week 3 is titled Beyond the Swinging Gate. It's a movable book that transforms from a cross shape to a rectangle and back again.. each flip and twist of the page uncovering a new stanza of the little rhyme. It's a combination of mono-print and letterpress printing on Mohawk cover paper with an overlay of some pen and ink sketching.
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| as a cross... the cover and title plate |
The little rhyme goes like this...
Beyond the Swinging Gate
Shadowed garden
Eternal fate
Rows of memories
Stalked straight
Beyond the Swinging Gate
(Repeat)
Flip open the cover page to see the rectangular first page spread...
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| open by unfolding the gate-fold pages, then twist counter-clockwise |
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| the first two pages... a gate |
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| third and fourth pages... another gate |
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| rotate, unfold, and watch it transform... |
Around and 'round this little gate-fold book goes. It's an endless circle of folding transformation. The Swinging Gate is really just a metaphor for life.
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| in the end, a cross of a gate |
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| the last gate |
