One down, many more to go ...

Abstract book all printed and bound - hooray!

Indian Prayer - abstract book

Thank you everyone for the messages since my last slightly depressed post ... to make up for it I thought I'd show you all how my abstract book is going. It's not meant to have words but I've photographed the pages with the relevant words so you can see how it relates to the poem.













Its all in place now, just need better paper to print on and then source some book cloth and stuff to make a good cover and bind it. This is actually the one piece that I have thoroughly enjoyed doing this year and am really quite happy about ...

Patterns

Here are some pattern/textures I've been making to use in the abstract book project...

Abstractions...

We've now been given our second brief for the 'Word and Image' module (Curious incident is still on-going). Its to find a self contained piece of text and make a 'book' (or equivalent) of at least 12 pages. I looked at a few bits of poetry and had a go at quickly sketching out some ideas:

Prayers for the Imperfect by Henry Normal

Indian Prayer (starts "When I am dead, cry for me a little")

Invitus by W.E. Henley (one of my favourite poems of all time)

High Flight (an Airman's Ecstasy) by J.G. Magee

Have had a tutorial and the tutors suggested I follow up both the Indian prayer and Airman's Ecstasy with a bit more work - then pick one to work up into a final piece. Am quite looking forward to this ...