Eric's entry into Gail's book

Where am I?

I was drawn to Gail's initial entry, that big old ink blob, plus the overall sensiblity with the structure and use of materials when she made us this book to work into.

I took it as an omen to dig deep into the studio flat files, and found an old polymer plate that depicts a topographic drawing from a moon, and a plastic plate intended to be used as a cobblestone pattern for model railroad enthusiasts' cityscapes (I guess, who really knows, but they have some great materials in those shops!).

Oh, and for those of you who don't know me and my penchants, of course, there's some spraypaint and glitter. However, I did also include some mica that I myself harvested from a nearby cliff and ground up in my mortise and pestel.

I am trying to depict.... well, you decide!

ONWARDS!!!!!

Eric's entry into Carol's book

BONJOUR: what moves me?

 

Well, I guess the answer to the question Carol poses to us, I have tried to answer with the entry, spelled out in rubber stamps. 

MY EYES MOVE ME.

So one of the first things that struck me was how many pages there were in Carol's book. We only have 8 or so people making entries in this rotation, so therefore I challenged myself to use as many as I felt like. I challenge you after me to do the same!

I took this book as a chance to play, as I usually do. I've kept an optically jarring silkscreen in the studio, printed on mylar, then used as a stencil and a proofing paper for some letterpress stamping for the word BONJOUR. This provided the cover sheets for the contents of my entry, which I frankly didn't even remember to count how many pages it included in its accordeon. 





I first found myself thowing away the little paper bits leftover after one tears out pages from a spiral bound book... then I decided to use those as the main character in a stapled-10 page fold out made from old woodblock printed paper. They became stencils, for spraypainting onto sheets torn out from the book, then they also beame elements I wove/ stapled into the fold out. 

It was really fun to work on this project, who knows how it will advance......

Can you dig it?!?

Jen's entry in Dust to Dust

Hayes' entry in Dust to Dust

Inspired by his recent snowboarding accident which resulted in a few pins and plates being inserted into his wrist and hand.

Jen's entry in Move

Hayes' entry in Move

We found some amazing old scrapbooks at the local brocki (2nd hand stores) and was inspired by them.

Eric's entry into Hayes's book

Lightning Bolt

Drawing under the "If-Thence"...

Indeed, I turned on the ole' Spotify and I followed a statement I wrote in the beginning sections of the book:

If you get stuck making an entry, then pursue process

and therefore made a drawing whilst listening to heavy metal music. I liked all the instructions and contributions that were asked of me for this book! A lot to bite into!

Keep it rollin'

Jo's entry in Rika's book