Shadow Boundaries.....update

After battling like mad (it’s the perfectionist in me) trying to make the unravelled concertina book work on both sides, it took me all week to surrender and realise that it just ‘aint gonna’ work, it’s a physical and visual impossibility.

So I ‘hung it out to dry’ as it were and saw that it would work if I concentrated on one side only, displayed it vertically, and perhaps turned the imagery so it views vertically ….

And it was lovely to stop fighting with it.  Some of the double page spread images won’t work quite as well so I will just use the ones that work as a single page.

Now my problem is to work out how to attach the pages together seamlessly…or at least appear seamless!  This is still the dummy book.

sue corr

Shadow Boundaries continued

So I sliced the dummy book open ending up with single sheets (and numbered them very quickly) and started to attach it back together in concertina style adding a few shadowy cut outs in between the pages just to get the feel of the book.

It was interesting and difficult because whilst I was paying attention to the top of the pages as I was attaching them I couldn't see what was happening underneath and obviously the published double pages have been split up and are appearing randomly.    This is bringing to mind Cages' ideas about chance...and just letting the reverse happen of its own accord.

It was quite dark when I took this photo but you get the idea. 

sue corr

Shadow Boundaries

Is there anybody out there?....

A shame not more people are contributing to the blog.

Well for what it is worth here is my blog donation.

I highly recommend Blurb.  Their support service is awesome.  I had a text error on one of my pages of the published book and they have dispatched two further copies for me free of charge.  So much to my delight I have two extra books to play with and I can really wreck one now and stretch the boundaries even further.

So before prising the blurb book apart I lay out the rough pages separately in order to work out how I could add bits in between the original pages

It was at this light bulb moment it dawned on me that there was something printed on the other side and how would this work within my unravelled book?

I am currently looking into the possibility of some laser cutting to lace in between the pages and make a concertina book but I will have to carry on researching with the dummy copy to see how this is going to work with the imagery on both sides

sue corr