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

...

carpe diem 2013 - 6

one book page origami boat

launched on the incoming tide 

Dalmeny Beach


....

carpe diem 2013 - 5

one sunflower with repaired/replaced petal

and some bees

....

carpe diem for BAO - page by page

 

carpe diem 2013 - 3

one parrot chewed apple, one almost perfect apple, 

one page-wrapped apple in the apple tree 

... 

 

 

a gesture...

 

this day

 one year ago

Justin McGovern

a vibrant, sporty, ragamuffin teen from our little town

was walking home

in the early hours of a foggy Sunday morning

when a few hundred metres from his home

he was struck by a vehicle

that did not stop

...

Justin died in the middle of the road 

before help could be summoned

.... 

a year has passed

 and still no one has come forward to claim responsibility 

....

 

 

I left a paper heart by the cross that sits next to the road

....

 

 

 

carpe diem 2013 - 1

 three map index 'feathers'

 stack of decomposing Colliers encyclopaedias

one rock

cloudy day

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