More BOOKS!

Here is the cover from my Mica Book, another class taught by Dan Essig at Bookworks in Asheville, NC. This is my cover - a transparency  covered with a thin film of natural mica. I used a jeweler's saw to cut the hole in the thick, manmade mica.

Word and Image

This week was my second class with Annie Cicale at Bookworks. It has stretched me quite a bit. First I learned to fold a book in a Wave to Shore fold.  Then we studied Wabi-sabi - the uneven layouts of the ancient illuminated manuscripts and drafted our own  page layout. I ended up with 16 pages, or eight double page spreads. I picked a poem that would fit into the space then worked within the wabi-sabi layout.

The poem is by poet Po Chu-I:

I look at my shadow

over and over

in the lake;

I see no white face

only the white hair

I have lost my youth,

and shall never find it again.

Useless to stir the Lake-Water.

I worked very quickly and there some things I would do differently, but overall I am glad I finished it. We will critique it on Tuesday night - YIKES!