Matt and Christine,
Thanks very much both - you’ve both nailed a large thing that isn’t working for this (the use of the tunnel book) and you’re both right. As Matt already knows, I love paper theatres and playing with theatre imagery, and so I’ve made a couple of sample tunnel theatre books and then just got stuck on the idea of tunnel books. But it’s not right for these, particularly with the circle ‘tunnel’. It’ll be right for another project, instead. I think I probably need, as Matt suggests, to start playing with ideas of circles and movement and then that’ll take me to end pieces that work better with the tunnel book form. And I'll think hard about how to layout the text on the next circular project (and your thoughts, again, were very helpful).
Anyway, today I experimented with small flat images and a simple accordion book. I also made a tiny fold-out theatre which works nicely despite its scale (9x12cm). And on nice heavy watercolour paper the accordion sample looks quite cool even with home printer small float-mounted images.
Five palmist images aren’t quite enough for an accordion book, so I think for this specific project what I’ll do instead is use nine small theatrical images so that I have nine folds, and then have envelopes with a small tunnel book in one (again theatre themed) and some ‘characters’ in the other, plus an explanation. That might work just right.
So although this isn’t the right rabbit hole, it’s coming together in my head. Using an accordion book also means that I can float mount or photograph mount the prints in the book so people can then ‘have’ them loose to frame if they want, too.
Anyway, I’ve bought some lovely book cloth and end papers ready to work on a more professional sample of an accordion book with extras. It’s coming together, I think and would haven’t done without both your thoughts, and I am very grateful.
Apologies too for my lack of critiquing when there is interesting work around. I need to prep images to print tomorrow and then I’ll have a little more time.
Thank you both again,
Sarah-Jane
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