Week 23

What I did

Friday: [ 4 hrs ] Carving, writing poetry

Saturday: [ 3.5 hrs ] Carving

Sunday: [ 3 hrs] Carving

Monday: [ 6 hrs] Created a mock up, to-scale piece to show the curators. Carving blocks, printing signature prototype on the digital printers, registering block location on page, printing on press

Tuesday: [ 9 hrs ] Book binding crash demo, carving blocks while watching tv on my computer, which I never do.

Wednesday: [ 3 hrs ] Setting type for letterpress blind emboss. Want to use Caslon, MISSING THE LETTER "l" from the job case.

Thursday: [ 5 hrs ] Carving final block and fixing up details on the proofed blocks. Spoke to writing tutor about my thesis paper and poetry. She gave me some useful feedback. Meeting with Mark and Steven about displaying my books in the show. They think a table with chairs would be a good way to show the piece. They also mentioned mounting the blocks up on the wall with bent nails. I think it will be interesting. Printed off the poetry dump. Then I got really sick and passed out during studio hours.
Practicing different signature binds that Hannah gave me for the books.

Friday: @ work

What I discovered
At first I felt reluctant about having my work shown in Warren-Robin's gallery but I know Mark and Steven are great curators and know what they are doing. This is kind of fun to do.

What to do
 There are a lot of options on how to pull each series together. At first I thought a book-band would be sufficient, but once it is removed it will be hard to organize the books back together. I want to give cues that would be helpful, like color in the threaded spine, text, or imagery. I'm also really pissed about the Caslon "l". Oh, and I need to go carve every block to get overall consistency in the cutting style. Mainly, work work work, proof proof proof. Start looking at poets Megan suggested for me. I'm hoping to make a second edition to donate to the special collections library at the Duderstadt, if they would like it.