A Clockwork Orange is finished.

From the outset A Clockwork Orange was never going to be a 'nice' binding. The text is so shocking, so powerful in the extremes of human kind. It begs for a visceral approach and use of materials trying to capture the distortion and fluidity of the sensations that the book evokes.

A Clockwork Orange, tick tock.

Leather joints are put in and the structure of the book begins to take on form. Perhaps now we can see how the outside of the book and the inside of the book begin to create a narrative.

The title is completed with hand tooled letters.

Tick Tock.

Front and back end papers and doublers. So close to being finished. Of course that means hours to go !

A Clockwork Orange. Work cracks on.

 The work now begins to traverse the boards, elements of the design  now flow.

Back board detail.

Old school techniques are sometimes employed to get the correct visual texture.

Nearly there I think. Well, for the time being.

 With Orange I am really wanting this not to be a 'nice' binding. The text is so shocking, so powerful in the extremes of the human nature. In places that it begs for a visceral approach and use of materials. I am trying to capture the distortion and fluidity of the sensations that the book evokes.

A Clockwork Orange.

Slow but getting there.