COLOR: favorite
IMAGE: traced, re-drawn, lifted from outside sources
LAYOUT: minimal or restrained
PAPER: multiple colors
STRUCTURE: multiple openings (french doors, dos-a-dos, split page, etc.)
TECHNIQUE: high-tech (letterpress, offset printing, printmaking, etc.)
TEXT: collaborate with a writer or poet
ADJECTIVE: humorous
The wild card option may be used to disregard any ONE criteria
The book for the month of February is titled, A Poem. As specified by the Artist's Ideation Cards, it is a collaborative piece, written by the author that goes by the name Anonymous. The poem is not particularly humorous... which was specified by the AIC cards.. other than the title, which is ridiculously obvious. So, using the Wild Card option... the humorous criterion has been omitted (unless your humor gauge is rather low). The book is a casebound book with a colorful Rossi® Italian decorative print cover paper and a rose-orange metallic spine paper. The title plate is letterpress printed on sage green Hahnemuhle Ingres paper. Inside, two types of paper... sage green Hahnemuhle Ingres paper and white Stonehenge print paper comprise the stiff-leaf bound text block pages.
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| Front Cover |
Like the title plate, the lines of A Poem have been letterpress printed with Futura Condensed type and black ink onto Hahnemuhle Ingres paper. The illustrations for each page have been created by solvent transfer of images and additional embellishment with pen & ink and acrylic paint. Each illustration page is also a fold-out french door structure.
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| open book, open doors |
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| Title page doors |
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| title page |
This is the poem, A Poem...
A Poem
- by Anonymous
Isn’t it strange that Princes and Kings
And clowns that caper in sawdust rings
And ordinary folk like you and me
are builders of Eternity?
To each is given a bag of tools,
An hour glass and a set of rules.
And each must build e’er his life is flown
A stumbling block or a stepping stone.
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| Princes and Kings |
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| clowns |
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| folks like us |
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| 50's tv show, Father Knows Best, the inspiration of folks like us |
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| builders of Eternity |
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| bag of tools |
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| hour glass and rules |
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| one's own life |
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| stepping stones |
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| the Colophon |
Some more stepping stones...
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| the steps at Wulai, Taiwan |
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| back steps to the cathedral in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, France |
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| ceramic sculpture at Heller Gardens, Garda, Italy |
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| 3rd century Roman villa, Desenzano del Garda, Italy |
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| on a rock at Tot's Tumbling class |
COLOR: single color
IMAGE: abstract
LAYOUT: in the form of a diagram, chart, or map
PAPER: minimal paper usage (emphasis on alternative material, i.e.. cloth, plastic, wood, metal, etc.)
STRUCTURE: single sheet binding (map fold, brochure, blizzard book, boustrophedon, etc.)
TEXT: self generated
TECHNIQUE: use a technique that is unfamiliar to you
ADJECTIVE: sentimental or nostalgic
The wild card option may be used to disregard any ONE criteria
