Gill
For this month’s theme of ‘Blank’ I created eight small stitched books, each one with different types of paper. The books are very small and relate to a project that we have concerned with taking impressions and then prints from putty rubbers that Tamsin gave to each of us. The books fit inside the plastic case that the putty rubber came in.
Isi
For the theme Blank I chose to use a paper structure that can hold several folded sections, each containing a letter of the alphabet creating together the word BLANK. It was an invitation to use a yellowish paper strong enough to keep the structure stable, and transparent sticky notes with a very discrete grid on both sides of the cover giving an overall clean blank look to the book.
Joan
As book artists, we often discuss whether a piece of work, which may be book shaped but without text or a narrative, is really an ‘artist book’.
I tend to think that every artist book should have a narrative and a meaning to the artist, even if it is implicit. Although I like the colours in this ‘blank’ book, which I made for our latest theme, it has no significance to me as an artist book.
Patti
Tony
The prompt ‘Blank’ made me think of how some people hate the first blank page of a new sketchbook or a blank canvas. In fact it is called ‘White Page Syndrome’. Artists sometimes scumble the canvas to get rid of the glaring empty canvas and then imagine what the random marks suggest, a process called Pareidolia.
This made me think of the largest of all canvas, the starry sky. People have, seemingly, always seen gods and monsters shining down on them. I constructed this interlocking concertina book with a blank page intersected by the Milky Way to echo our endless ability to fill in the blank space.
