Week 29: Scavenger Hunt, Remembering

   The Scavenger Hunt series continues during Week 29 with a blank sketchbook journal titled, Remembering.  Remembering is made of italian mould-made paper folios sewn on leather tapes with the kettle-link stitch. Marbled paper covers the cover-boards. The title plate is a letterpress linoleum block print with hand lettering and letterpress printing using 24-pt Goudy Oldstyle type.

the Remembering book and drawing tools...

Inside the book, the array of brightly covered signatures are bracketed by endpapers with gold-flecked vintage marbled paper. The purpose of the blank journal is to make sketches and journal entries of all the things collected, seen, or experienced while on the three Scavenger Hunts... Finding the Caves; In Two Cities; and About the Pyrenees. 

inside Remembering....

Because tools for sketching and journaling are needed to use the book, a multi-section box houses the book. The compartments and lid are covered with mono print paper, Japanese print paper, and vintage maps from a 1950's Michelin Paris Tour guidebook. Blue satin ribbon is used on the lifting tray and the bone clasp closure for the box lid. Tools inside the tray include pens and pencils, an eraser, a tiny watercolor paint kit, and French postage stamps.

top box opened...

Under the section tray box is a drawer for storage of the three Scavenger Hunt books... Finding the Caves, In Two Cities, and About the Pyrenees. A vintage pearl button serves as the drawer pull and the box is covered in the same blue mono print paper used on the multi-section box.

bottom drawer opened...

three Hunts books and two boxes...

When all the books are removed, the interior of two boxes shows the map of old Paris during the 1950's.

two empty boxes...

two boxes...closed up tight

   Some books are read... ingested... we passivly take in the words written by some sage, some poet, some storyteller, some smart person.. and we are better for it. But some books should be experienced as a game.... as a movable interaction that requires our own input to create the book... and maybe the book changes over time... maybe the lines are written over, erased, rewritten, scratched out, written again... without spellcheck or delete. These amazing books are our own bible... they capture a moment, a fingerprint of our being, and make a part of that moment eternal... at least until the book is destroyed or lost. Then... perhaps... it can be found again in some Scavenger Hunt.