Although I am retaining the idea of Alterations I have found myself following up ideas fairly randomly. It has been relaxing just going where an idea takes me without the focus on presenting a body of work. I did however in this haphazard fashion complete three books between playing with folds of paper with an eye to future projects.
Sample Book 2022
I had worked a sample book dated 2020 – 2021 last year and I thought that I would make one from 2022, so I printed 2cm fragments from plates designed and printed in that year and constructed this book. I shall try and do another book for 2023, next January, with a different design and shapes of printed fragments. I like this idea and wonder why I hadn’t thought about it years ago! Too late now.
Unpicked Pleats
Here I took my favourite printing plate and printed it onto Hosho paper, that I had been experimenting with lately. Its a small book which sits in my hand.
Altered Messages
This set of five books began with the idea of predetermined sized stationery that many societies use, postcards, A4, A3 etc. I found a small envelope and it was a short jump to the messages that we place within them. I again used the Hosho paper as it folds down easily, made the envelopes from Indian cotton rag paper and designed a plate the correct size. I printed a series of five, each time removing a part of the plate so that the fifth print was just the bare bones of the design.
Altered, until there was little left.
The envelopes were lined with painted tissue and the editions were printed to the covers.
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Annwyn Dean 