such is the case with glass artists' books:
Tom Virgin "Your School"
8 in x 45 in x 3 in (open) artist’s book 2012
“Your School” is an accordion structure book created from fused glass and cut copper drawings, bound with multiple ply waxed linen thread, and text printed on bands of Hahnemühle Ingres with a Vandercook 3 Proof Press. The book employs the metaphor of keeping a low maintenance pet (a fish) to examine multiple challenges that schools, and especially young people, are currently facing in Florida and Miami. This book is an edition of two with the second book being sewn with a codex binding.
This book came from my admiration of a friend’s creative use of non-book-like media to create a book. The glass process was enhanced by the advice and guidance of Gail Dahlberg at the Anderson Center at Tower View. The color and glass inclusions fused into window glass created a transparent structure for a very opaque situation, the state of schools. The fish metaphor came from a continuing collaboration with Michael Hettich, a “gringo Magical Realist” poet from Miami.
Bobbette Rose "Fleeting Memories"
“Your School” is an accordion structure book created from fused glass and cut copper drawings, bound with multiple ply waxed linen thread, and text printed on bands of Hahnemühle Ingres with a Vandercook 3 Proof Press. The book employs the metaphor of keeping a low maintenance pet (a fish) to examine multiple challenges that schools, and especially young people, are currently facing in Florida and Miami. This book is an edition of two with the second book being sewn with a codex binding.
This book came from my admiration of a friend’s creative use of non-book-like media to create a book. The glass process was enhanced by the advice and guidance of Gail Dahlberg at the Anderson Center at Tower View. The color and glass inclusions fused into window glass created a transparent structure for a very opaque situation, the state of schools. The fish metaphor came from a continuing collaboration with Michael Hettich, a “gringo Magical Realist” poet from Miami.
The glass book called "Fleeting Memories" actually ended up relating to
"Faint Glimpses," although I didn't make the connection until they were
both done and in the gallery. "Fleeting Memories" is a book made up of
seven thin sheets of glass that I dipped in wax. So they also have this
translucent feel to them. I then wrote a journal entry on each waxed
glass plate with a stylus–my private, stupid, profound rants on
different days as I was making the book. I pushed paint into the etched
words so, at one point, the words were quite legible. I then attacked
each page with a heat gun. The color and the wax began to flow–the words
coming apart, re-forming, dripping down and fading.
To me, the vulnerability of the words was key. Where once they seemed
so clear and organized, they reveal themselves finally in this fused
state of ambiguity. It seemed
like an appropriate way to describe the fragility of my own life-story.
Not in a negative, falling-apart way but in this poetic
dance-through-time sort of way that reveals the things you think are so
understandable and solid one day can be so fluid and fleeting the next.
So as the book of my life, written in my own words, moves in and out of focus, so too, the ancient "book of life" has its own mysterious translucency to me. I realized, as I looked at these two pieces, that I'm vague in my understanding about alot things these days. And its funny, but that has brought a new type of clarity to my thinking.
So as the book of my life, written in my own words, moves in and out of focus, so too, the ancient "book of life" has its own mysterious translucency to me. I realized, as I looked at these two pieces, that I'm vague in my understanding about alot things these days. And its funny, but that has brought a new type of clarity to my thinking.
And then the Glassbook Project, which does a good job of not allowing theft of images. Go here to view the project, website, and images galore.
