October: Sunday In Bed All Day Watching Netflicks

        Color: Black & white

        Image: None (disregarded using the Wild Card option)

        Layout: Centered on the page

        Paper: Single color

        Structure: multiple openings

        Text: None

        Technique: Digital

       Adjectives: Narrative, miniature, photographic

   October's book is titled Sunday in Bed All Day Watching Netflicks. The book structure is a single-leaf folded book that has multiple gate-fold openings. The single sheet of paper folds down to a miniature book, 2 inches by 2 inches. At it's largest, the book is 4 by 4 inches. 

The title is the only text in the book. It was digitially printed onto a sheet of white Cranes® 100% linen paper with a Brother® laser printer.

The images are photocopies of a piece of crumpled wax paper, printed on the front and backside of the single sheet of paper. The black and white imagery resembles bedsheets. This uses the wild card substitution for the criteria of no image. 

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As the pages unfold and refold on themselves, the narrative is simply the beginning, middle, and end of a day wasted (or not, depending on one's point-of-view).

The changing imagery of the bed sheets illustrates and describes this narrative.

This is a story where nothing really happens except someone laying in bed all day passively watching others' stories. It is a story about the simple act of existing... of making an impression by just being.

And as the pages are folded and unfolded, opened and closed, the book returns to its beginning...

like the mythical Ouroboros, the snake eating his tail... from the Creation myth of the perpetual eternal cyclic renewal of life.

Early alchemical ouroboros illustration with the words "εν το παν" ("one is the all"). From the work of Cleopatra the Alchemist (Greco-Roman Egypt).

November Artists' Book Ideation Cards:

Color: Favorite

Image: Collaborate with another artist

Layout: minimal or restrained

Paper: Neutral

Structure: Single sheet binding

Technique: High tech. (letterpress, printmaking, typewriter, etc.)

Text: Collaborate with a writer or poet

Adjectives: Strange or exotic; complicated or confusing; futuristic