You are a wonderfully talented artist,with a sublime sense of balance,rhythm and color coordination.Just browsing through your gallery your work is awe inspiring and takes me to great unexpected highs.Thank you so much for sharing.
Some of your pieces remind me of passages in Peter Greenaway's film adaptation of the Tempest - Prospero's books. Books of Fire, of Water, of Strange Beasts...
This love for the written word and an endless creative drive around the text and the book as object or as artifact...it is interesting to see, somewhat cryptic at times. Beautiful work.
And I think it would be limitless joy to actually leaf through an entire book of such pages
I haven't seen the film, but I think that its theme of books it's close to my idea of book as a form of artistic and meaningful content. And yes, I intentionally leave a slight amount of the undiscovered enigma in them. I've already made 3 small booklets of a similar kind, but I still have an idea for a bigger themed book (maybe even with self-made paper), hovewer, it will require much preparation, time and hard work. But someday, I'd love to create something like that. It would be a real opus. Thank you very much!
If you manage to find the film somewhere, I'd recommend that you watch it. I think you will like it (as well as "The Pillow Book", by the same director).
The books you describe make me think of carefully, painstakingly illuminated manuscripts - although I do not know if they have ever been done with a look towards the individual or aesthetic as opposed to the devotional.
In fact, creating the entire book with the same love and care that most writers would devote to the ideas that flow into the book, is highly appealing to me. I wouldn't have the patience or the devotion to create something as layered and beautiful as you have - I tend to walk in the impatient world of ideas - but it certainly turns reading those pages into something very sensual and sacred.
This love for the written word and an endless creative drive around the text and the book as object or as artifact...it is interesting to see, somewhat cryptic at times. Beautiful work.
And I think it would be limitless joy to actually leaf through an entire book of such pages
The books you describe make me think of carefully, painstakingly illuminated manuscripts - although I do not know if they have ever been done with a look towards the individual or aesthetic as opposed to the devotional.
In fact, creating the entire book with the same love and care that most writers would devote to the ideas that flow into the book, is highly appealing to me. I wouldn't have the patience or the devotion to create something as layered and beautiful as you have - I tend to walk in the impatient world of ideas - but it certainly turns reading those pages into something very sensual and sacred.