I’m so enamored of these little alphabet paintings I did summer before last. I’ve been scanning them in, altering the scans, deciding not to alter them after all, trying them out in my website design class, and playing with them in books. Here’s a flag book in progress. I had to tell myself this was just a very, very rough prototype so I wouldn’t spend all my time getting perfect accordion folds — a particular obsession of mine, and nearly totally useless in building models.
I imagine that the finished book — if I ever finish it — won’t look much like this. But it’s a start.
As always, click on the image for a close look.
Love those alphabets. I can see you creating all kinds of things since you scanned them. Like collage! 😉
Toni, it’s a mystery to me what to do with these letters. I finished the prototype of the flag book and took it to my friend Julia for analysis. We’ve pretty much decided that these letters can’t be bunched together; they have to stand separately. I’m thinking an accordion fold book (my default structure) with one alphabet per page. Or one broadside with 26 columns. Something like that.