Every other year, my local book group, the Santa Fe Book Arts Group, has a juried show in the New Mexico Capitol Rotunda Gallery. My 4 miniature books are included and the opening is this Friday, September 6, from 4 to 6 pm, and the exhibit is up until December 13. Find out more here.
One of my favorite tasks when designing my calendar is selecting the colors. Too bad I didn’t run across Modulem’s book art photography for inspiration. She takes photographs of the ends of old paperbacks. Here are a few of them. See more here. She also has makes what she calls book art on paper
Given the prompt “a book that demonstrates the progression of time,” Molly Brooks made a carousel book in a tribute to Doctor Who. She says “i did digital drawings of each actor that had portrayed him at time of binding (10), each paired with an image of the evolving interior of his spaceship. the blue hard-case is debossed to resemble the exterior of the spaceship, a blue phonebox.” Here’s the book. See more of Molly’s book work here. {First seen here.}
My sister sent me a lovely article from the LA Times about a woman who writes poetry at the Hollywood Farmer’s Market. It reads in part (the rest is here).
Jacqueline Suskin sits like an old-fashioned secretary between a lemonade stand and two guys selling hummus at the Hollywood Farmers Market. A sea-green typewriter rests on the tiny wooden table in front of her. Scotch-taped to the table is a letter-pressed sign that reads:
Poem Store.
Your Subject Your Price.
…
Over the course of this morning, Suskin will write about “Seizures as Spiritual Portals” for a 50-year-old fashion designer. She’ll write a poem on “Wedding Planners” for a soon-to-be bride and a poem on “Back Pain” for the fiance. And for a lithe young woman in short jean shorts and an embroidered top, she’ll compose verse on “New Beginnings,” just a few weeks after she wrote her a poem on “New Love.”
I’ve become quite enamored of miniature books recently. On Carrol Moxham’s facebook page she shared the pictures below of “The Wine” by Suzanne Thomas. They are from the University of Iowa’s Special Collections facebook page, where they seem to feature a miniature from their collection every Monday. Do check out Suzanne’s website—lots of miniature books there…