This book has endpapers that resemble shiny aubergine colored cloth. Its cover has a base of gessoed cotton. I wanted to use collage images, but I’m finicky about stealing work from others, so I used stuff I had lying around. The words are lines from my short story ‘Emily’s Fifth Birthday’ cut into strips and painted various shades of red and purple. The oak leaf motif is a photocopy from the design I did for my fake tattoo this April fool’s day. The crow is a sketch from my notebook.Â
The red color is from a translucent red cloth. I have three or four layers of cloth, and interspaced the other design elements within them so that there were degrees of translucency. I adhered the whole thing down with acrylic medium.
The letters are from a scrapbooking elements box. Betsy Hasman helped me with the Latin. She assures me it means “I write.” I considered other languages, but Latin won because of the conservation of E factor. Those letter kits never have enough Es.
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Wow. I knew it was beautiful, and now I know how it was made, which makes me extra happy that it’s sitting on my shelf, waiting its turn to become my daily journal.
Thank you.