Adding to Insult

 My biblionautic chums and friends.
Adding Insult.

Work progresses... as in Work In Progress (WIP). Various different coloured strips of leather are hand pared, hand dyed and applied to the binding. Each worked over the grotesque clown-low relief forms. The undulations, variations in grain and differing tonal quality lend an air of disquiet and tension. The overlapping of the applied strips of leather are echoed in the print technique used for the end papers and doublers.

Images of the texture, initial infill to the doubler/doublure, leather joint and front end paper.

Please note.... there are other studios/binderies doing stuff, spelling and grammar. Please further note, the opinion of the author may change at any moment. This is due to having an open mind of sorts.

 

Adding Insult.

 

My biblionautic chums and friends.

Inbetween spells of teaching and whatnot a new commission has slowly been taking shape on the benches of Studio 5.

A few years ago I viewed an exhibition of work by two controversial artists, The Chapman Brothers. So taken by the exhibited work I bought a catalogue, always with the thought that I would like to do something with it. Anyway, a few months ago a long time collector of mine visited Studio 5, you know... for a chat and stuff. It so happened that I had been purusing said catalogue and it was open on a bench. After some discussion and thought we decided that it would make a rather interesting design binding. To this end I was commissioned to "do something with it". Let the fun begin!

Please note.... there are other studios/binderies doing stuff, spelling and grammar. Please further note, the opinion of the author may change at any moment. This is due to having an open mind of sorts.