ABCD (Artists’ Book Club Dove) meeting at the Dove today, to share work done on the topic of ‘Winged’. Ama Bolton usually records the work in her blog, but she is in Poland at the moment, so I’ll do it, using photos Jane Paterson took.
Tree Spring Book, Clare Diprose
This is called a Spring book as it starts off folded in half like a book, and then quite literally springs into shape when you let go of it. Look carefully and you see the birds. I’m collecting poems about trees at the moment, and this tree reminds me of lines from a lovely poem by Andrew Marvell, called ‘The Garden’ – “Casting the body’s vest aside/My soul into the boughs does glide;/There like a bird it sits and sings,/Then whets and combs its silver wings.” Lots of poets in this tree.
Tree Spring book from above
Winged Words, Caroline Mornement
Caroline found the right book by chance, fortuitously called ‘Winged Words’ and altered it to make this explosion of birds and words. I couldn’t remember the title of the book (see Jane Paterson’s book below about memory – or lack of it) so Caroline emailed me this:
Winged, Karen Young
A many winged book; an ingenious piece of paper engineering, with details and inserts that you don’t see here.
Insects, Judy Warbey
Judy painstakingly drew 100 insects or so onto handmade Korean paper, and constructed this delicate spiralling book.
Winged, Janine Barchard
Upside down, but the best way to see all the pop ups in this book, and the nice details on the spine.
Memory, Jane Paterson
Last not least: having set us the topic of Winged, Jane had so many ideas she couldn’t settle on one, so made this book about memory and how it comes and goes as we get older. Ebb and Flow (more Flow and Ebb though).
