Codex Event 6

I came to look at my Blogger dashboard this evening and found that Tim Mosely had invited me to participate in a new blog about the Codex events he runs at Southern Cross University's Lismore campus, about which I have previously blogged. I'll be interested to see how this team blog takes off, and if you're interested you can take a look here.

Codex 6 - the second book

I'm not so sure I like the text on the covers of the second book; I should have made it chunkier



I've finished the second of the two books resulting from my residency and I'm pleased over all with the results despite my misgivings about my 'font size'! The words on the front and back covers come from the Greek roots of the words hegemony and antithesis (which is a form of resistance). Hegemony and resistance are words used in the pulp-printed pages in the book. Again I cut into the book board and used a bone folder to push the book cloth into the covers and reveal the embossing.



In some places on the papers we made during the residency I used pulp-printing to 'join' two newly formed sheets

Codex 6 - the first book

You'll remember that I went on a residency, Codex 6, at Southern Cross University in Lismore in January...? Well I've finally been able to start putting the resulting handmade, pulp-printed paper into book form and have bound the first of two accordian books. I promised to show the results, so here are some photos:


The books are in a simple accordian format with two hard covers




The pages are made from sheets of hand-made pulp-printed paper




The theme of the work was 'Resistance' and the motifs evolved into spiky viruses, prickly cacti and cogs







I've cut into the book board to create impressions of cogs, which are a recurring motif in the pulp-printed paper




Eventually the full set of 16 books will be boxed together in a slip-case although I believe that they will all be individually for sale. I hope that the set will be shown at the Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artists' Book exhibition later this year.