Saturday, August 29, 2009

More Books

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Flag book. Made at Still Water Bindery.




Stab bound album. The paste papers were made one sunny afternoon in Vermont. I'd been dying to try the combination of purple and yellow.


The Happy Book. This is a book I'd made for a friend, to lift his spirits when they were down. It opens like a present. The inside accordion leaves have been put together in two different ways, to represent the mountains as well the ocean.


Long Stitch Binding in red and blue.


Sewn on tapes with a handmade Kozo cover.

Book Boxes

A book box I made during my apprenticeship at the Still Water Bindery with Patricia Johnson. The lid opens to reveal 8 books. Two accordions, two coptics, two exposed sewn and two double signature single sewn structures.


This book box made at the Still Water Bindery can hold upto twenty 4.5" by 6" books.

Case Bound books


This is case-bound book I made at the Auroville Paper Press. The spine is white silk, and the cover is leaf embossed cotton rag paper.


The spine of this book is block-printed hand made paper.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Journal

Pages from my old journal that I finally managed to scan.
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The beautiful view of the Himalyas we ultimately climbed with 700 monks, from Bhan's house in Kullu.

An old tree in Mussoorie that we stopped next to while buying Litchis for our trip.

A list of odds and ends, and a curiously shaped leaf that I found that looked so much like the nymphs in The Spiderwick Chorinicles.


Remnants of paste-papers, waxed linen and a few thoughts sitting on a hillside in
Vermont.



'The Masks I Wear'
The side-effects of working on a rotational Artists' Book at Still Water Bindery in Vermont.


In Mussoorie, sitting in Kal-Sang with a bowl of hot soup in the pouring rain. A man passes by with a black umbrella, carrying a small trunk saying 'Body Massage'.



Sitting in an old old Fir forest in Old Manali. A work in progress of the endless trees that surrounded me.


a page on my day at the incredible awe-some and mind boggling Huntington Library in LA, followed by the extremely strong and thought-provoking trip to the Sequoia National Park. It was life altering experience. I will never forget it, and I hope I have another opportunity to repeat it.




The book-binding begins. As do the visual intruction to burn the steps into my brain.


Thinking about the anatomy of the human heart after going to the Bodies exhibit, and about how love is in the mind.


The old fir tree at the lake house in Vermont. Peaceful.


The pines of Kasauli.


A page from a comic strip I made for a friend having a bad
day.

Colourful paper scraps and more lists!



Sitting in the Boston Common with a hot chocolate and doughnut after a mentally exhausting trip to the Museum of Modern Art, where I saw exquisite pieces of Art Nouveau jewelery.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

My books are going to be on display at this event in
Bangalore on the
24th & 25th!
Please visit the stall!