carpe diem 2013 - 20...

 Eight Encyclopaedia Britannica surround the mulberry bush

thirty minutes (and countless consumed ripe mulberries) later..

 

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variations on a theme...

coptic binding...

 with leather covered boards

long stitch over exposed fabric 'tapes'...

with black bookcloth covers

and long stitch binding over exposed leather 'tapes'...

with decorative paper covers 

the contents are quite similar in each

with small variations...

all three models explore ways of presenting 

the 52 art gestures of 2012

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week 52...

one volume of Encyclopaedia Britannica,
one candle in a jar, one cross

Cobargo Cemetery

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week 51...

one page from a Readers Digest novel 

folded and pamphlet bound with horse's hair 

taken from found birds nest

cupped in the nest-finder's hands

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week 50...

On the 12th day of the 12th month in the 12th year of the twenty first century...

family and friends gathered on the windy beach 

to witness the marriage of our gorgeous niece - T.N. to her wonderful man - M.E.

I commemorate the moment with outstretched hand and red-edged book

and capture the spirit of the day on the beach...

one red covered, red edged book

on Camel Rock beach, Bermagui

one bride, one groom, 

four bridesmaids, four groomsmen, one flower girl, one page boy,
one happy crowd of family and friends

12.12.12

Curse on all laws but those which love has made!
Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope  

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week 49...

 

book midden

on the creek bed confluence of Sams and Narira creeks

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week 48

'Cassell's Modern Encyclopaedia'

a mother's gift - 1941

wrapped in a ball of my handspun tussah silk from 1991

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week 47

 

three red covered books in an ex-post hole

made in the rocks off Horseshoe Bay, main beach Bermagui

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week 46

one red book and seven segulls

and the pines of Bermagui Harbour headland

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week 45

 eight yellow hard-covered volumes of 'The Encyclopaedia of the Animal World'

arranged as a circle in Sams Creek spring clover

one week later....

the books are removed...

then...

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week 44

 

 

EB - Science and the Future Year Book 

granite flat rocks from Sams Creek

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week 43

a collection of red books

their fore-edges incised

placed in a hole

and covered with wood chips

(well maybe not completely covered...)

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