In some ways, completing a personal creative project, one that I’ve been working on for months, feels like a purging.
LIKE……..
…Finally….I have got the IDEA out of my head and into my HANDS where I can hold it! No more mental treadmill, trudging over and over and over the spirit of idea till it becomes a heavy nebula.
Personal projects are often solitary journeys. Internal ones that can’t easily be expressed to others. They can be lonely and with that, there comes tinges of mental frenzy. It feels go to finish these works.
This is my latest. Small Candles. The zine that I didn’t mean to make but love that I did.
A light contemplation of small candles removed from expected contexts. Each spontaneous still life was captured during 10 minute intervals in my mundane mornings during the anxious Spring of 2021.
Photos printed on fine mulberry and hemp washi handmadby a 300yr old paper maker in Tokushima, Japan. This paper was chosen for its moody ethereal translucency and tactile quality. Each inkjet printed page has been hand-cut and perforated by me.
The front and back covers are made from thick swirling mulberry washi, chosen for its soft strength and unique texture.
Each delicate art zine has been double stitch bound by me. (I literally hold my breath while stitching through each copy - I don’t want the stitches to run away).