Summer Read : Norwich Book Art Competition.
'Self Assembly Mumbai Dwelling'
A response to the book 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers' by Katherine Boo
This book nearly didn't make it, and then I would not have won the first prize.
No one was more surprised than I was.
Feed back and encouragement from fellow ArtBookArt friends (who also by the way had their work chosen) at the eleventh hour, gave me that push I needed. All the fears and doubts of it not being 'good enough' were unfounded, and the experimentation with melted plastic bags and using all recycled materials to make the book paid off.
Its a funny thing making artists books, how I love this art form, the fact that an artists book can become so many things, from being whimsical and funny to serious or political, and the endless ways artists use the book structure to do this constantly delights me.
'Self Assembly Mumbai Dwelling'
A response to the book 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers' by Katherine Boo
This book nearly didn't make it, and then I would not have won the first prize.
No one was more surprised than I was.
Feed back and encouragement from fellow ArtBookArt friends (who also by the way had their work chosen) at the eleventh hour, gave me that push I needed. All the fears and doubts of it not being 'good enough' were unfounded, and the experimentation with melted plastic bags and using all recycled materials to make the book paid off.
Its a funny thing making artists books, how I love this art form, the fact that an artists book can become so many things, from being whimsical and funny to serious or political, and the endless ways artists use the book structure to do this constantly delights me.