Project: Fighting Entropy
If you’ve been following my blog you will have seen the evolution of the individual pages for this book. If you’re new to my site scroll down through recent posts to follow the Fighting Entropy journey.
Each printed tissue page was stitched – using a single cross-stitch in the top 2 corners – to a larger, heavier weight carrier sheet.
The tissue is deliberately smaller than the carrier so the pages don’t open fully; instead, when opened, the tissue prints sit forward from the carrier creating a more ethereal quality to each piece.
Following the colour wheel, each of the pages was stitched to a narrow concertina band using coloured thread matching the printed image. There are 14 pages per side.
The completed book looks like this.
The top photo is of the first side where the book starts with yellow and travels through orange and red to purple. When you walk around the table to view the other side (the second image) it continues with purple and moves through blue and green back to yellow, so completing the colour spectrum.
Using prints from the original combinations of etched plates hard covers were created and attached.
Above: Front and back covers, including title insert.
Fighting Entropy has been selected for the Artists’ Book Award and exhibition in Manly library during April.
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