I have continued to play with artist book making. This time I started with painted and gelli printed papers, not knowing what they would become, and started chopping, cutting, removing, joining and adding to the pages.
I added some leftover prints or those that didn’t necessarily print properly.
What should I do with them anyway, you can’t keep everything! Of course birds focused again, peeping through the pages, looking like they are hiding in the garden.
This seems to be a recurring theme and I’m sure it is because I have always had a lovely garden filled with birds. Even as a child we had a beautiful garden and there were always parrots, kookaburras, magpies, honeyeaters, little black birds and tiny eastern spine bills and sometimes little blue wrens.
This book is not finished yet it just grows as it wants and that is a nice way to work. At other times there is a great deal of planning going on but not this time.
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