My poor little car is dead, dead, dead, so I’ve been a little preoccupied, a little freaked out, and generally very cranky about the whole thing. I hate worrying about transportation problems. Last night, I was suffering from extreme grumpiness and thought a book making fix would help improve my mood. There’s something about the smell of beeswax and the rhythm of folding paper and sewing bindings that I find calming.
Since I’ve been playing around with glue books, I’ve been going through stacks of magazines, ripping out images. I decided to make a Dada book out of the left-overs. I took a stack of pages I’d torn out of various lifestyle/interior design magazines and made a little (4.5″ x 5.5″) coptic bound book out of them. It’s 13 signatures of 20 pages each, so the whole book is 260 sheets (520 front/back pages). It’s *cute*.
My plan is to do quick journaling and collage in it, with the emphasis on quick. This isn’t going to be a pretty, carefully crafted altered book sort of project. Since the pages are chock-a-block with ads and fashion/home decor advice, I’m planning on the book being a commentary on those things. I think that will tie in nicely with the overall concepts of Dada–reuse of junk/trash, anti-aesthetic, anti-culture, and silly, obscure references.
I haven’t taken pictures of the book yet, but I’ll post them when I do. I’ll probably also post scans of pages as I finish them.
red paper boat 