Back to work for sam&sue

We have been discussing the ego.  It came about because Sue raised the issue of ownership of photos taken during collaboration, of wanting or needing recognition, 'Wow that's a great shot.... kind of thing... pat on the back to you.'

We then discussed the fundamentals of successful collaboration and the necessity to 'let go' of the ego.  Our collaborative relationship has so far been a wonderful lesson in the experience of the liberation of ego.  There is no need for ownership.  The photographs become something else - like a person.  Our artists books become a communal product of both our photography.

This was taken today -31 degrees...too cold to press the shutter!!!

Turn The Page 2014

We are very excited

Fabulous wonderful news for sam&sue


We have been invited and selected to participate in the Norwich Artists Book Fair, Turn The Page 2014.

For more information visit


http://www.turnthepage.org.uk/

http://www.facebook.com/turnthepageabf

Shell Book

7.5 x 7.5 x 5 cm

I love this book....

This palm held book has a paper cast shell attached  on both the front and back cover.
The imagery on the cover and inside is created through drawing then using lithographic print.
Within the pages paper tongues spit out type written (on 'Erika')haiku inspired by the ocean.

 

 

All constructed with and on Japanese paper

shore, dream and rain noise the end of phase one

As this residency draws to its close we review our work.....

The shore dream and rain noise books are all printed, collated and ready for binding, no matter how many weeks we have to work together we always need one more week.

The next steps.....
To produce an e book with the resonant' collaborative book
We have quite a few maquettes for the beach work series including haiku this and our previous collaborations and the following weeks will be spent constructing these for next exhibitions interspersed with skype talks.

On a final note we have some people  to thank.

One more time a huge thank you to our funders, the Welsh Government, the national lottery and the Arts Council of Wales.

Thank you to

the Moray Art Centre Studio and people who came through to visit us
the chef Mick Corr
Roger Morin for the photos of sam&sue above
our two collaborators in Scotland Gillian Neish and Fiona Byrne Sutton
Jenny Smith for inspiring me to make the 30 minute book
and finally to all the people around the world who have visited this blog

Printing the shore book

Wonderful work done today

Madeleine has started printing the pronto plates for shore ....

you can see the newsprint proofs taped into the maquette here.

It flows beautifully through from one side of the book to the other...so above you can see the side with the beach drawings 

And here the other side with the dune horizon drawings

Shore Today

The last book of the trio Shore, Dream and Rain Noise.

Madeleine has been working hard today on the Shore book, whilst I have been receiving new computer skills....

We decided on a double concertina binding for the last book and the way it has been constructed makes it move like a wave reading from left to right and right to left. We are going to use drift wood as a spine

On one side of the concertina we are going to pronto print the horizon outline of dunes interspersed
with haiku text.

On the other side we will print drawings created using tools from the shore such as seaweed, pieces of driftwood, reeds and roots.

Drawings for the shore book

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We spent yesterday drawing with ink and acrylic on to acetate to make pronto plates using seaweed as a drawing tool...

And drawing with carbon to create lines, these later got scanned on to pronto through the laser printer.

Below drawing with reeds on the beach and round the reeds with graphite

Below two separate layers on top of each other, one using acrylic tusche reticulated and the other one a line drawing

These are all destined for the shore book and this is the cover.....