Mungo and i started planning the Floating Empire over a year before we seriously got down to the building of the boat. So i had some time to come to terms with the fact that i would have to change the way, certainly the scale of the work i was doing. The images of the work i am sharing today represent a pivotal change in scale and emphasis. I went from working three dimensionally; creating abstract, organic paper sculpture within the range of the human body to much smaller, on the wall pieces. To today, primarily making hand sized books.
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| Open Book #1 |
These "Open Books" represent a transition between the sculpture and the work i focus on today, which is primarily, the book as art. Art you can touch and use and hold.
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| detail, Open Book #1 |
The 'Open Books', are of course not open. Some of them are tied or sewn in a way that you can access the words that are written. All of them are translations of my prose work. Translations into one or another magical alphabet. All of the completed text was cut up and the order shuffled. I think it's fair to say that as books, the 'Open Books', may well never be read. That's okay. Mystery is sometimes a magical, inspiring experience. As i was creating them i often thought of them as Rosetta Stones; ways to decipher my heart.
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| Opne Book #2 |
Reading them as an artwork, well, that's a different ball of wax altogether.
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| Bottom detail, Open Book #2 |
The paper is some hand made paper i was gifted, and held on to for many years before using. The sort of translucent paper, was actually packing materials that i scavenged, stained and used. Both papers proved quite difficult to tear, for entirely different reasons
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I've always been fascinated by the forms that i see in nature. I have used scavenged from the landscape stuff in my work for years. Yeah! More recycling.
More later,
Morgainne
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