Making day: group 1 - KF

Printing and book-making

I made some books up before the making day, I used the time on the day to work on the feedback from Catherine Baker (the tutorial was the day before) and work with some simple lines, collisions of materials and explore some mark-making and printing.

small leporello
graphite frottage line

mixed paper book
charcoal continuous line
charcoal was not lifted
these pages stuck together
i filled the line but it felt untrue
I erased all of the line to deny the lie

book making from found materials
book of found papers
drawing a line on lino with a brush
printing the line
outcome of drawn line on lino
I cut a block instead and used it as a stamp to get a more consistent line

inked up perspex for mono printing line
the texture of the ink
preparing to print
prints drying
prints drying

Notes from the table (literally):

Use the frottage technique to draw a line in an existing book - encounters with surface

Draw a line through the book with charcoal - that line is a lie (it was broken by pages sticking together) - erase the lie, process of erasing is evident as it alters the book again, abrasive to the surface, leaving a trace of the original line on the surface and altering the marks that were there before the line.

Not a book - an object that acts like a book, but how is it read? How is it viewed? The line is like a horizon but if it is hung it becomes a seam? Does a seam have to bring two things together? What does that mean for the seams of the book pages?

Truth - erasing - trace -

Constancy of print block line, it is fractured but the fractures are on the seams of the book, is it still a line if it comes in multiple parts?

Truth of line - frottage - felt forced - looking for interesting surfaces - how can one create a gathered line that speaks of truth? What is the truth it is speaking? Is it fo time? What time? Does it matter?