On Promoting Interstitial Art
: “As I’ve been working on The Book of the Erinyes I’ve been trying to work out who it’s likely to appeal to. The problem is that it doesn’t fit comfortably in any one area. It sits between art and…”
The Artist’s Notebook - page 15
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Letterpress Progress
: “I’m making very good progress with the Letterpress part of the Book of the Erinyes at the moment — I’m managing to fit in 2 sessions of work at Brighton Independent Printmaking each week, and I’m…”
Letterpress Video
: “I thought I’d share a very short video I put together from some clips of me printing out a page of the Book of the Erinyes. At some point in the not-too-distant future I’ll put together something…”
Research in London
: “Yesterday I spent the day in London doing a whistle-stop tour of a few exhibitions as background research for the Book of the Erinyes. Bookbinding at the V&A The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters,…”
Letterpress Update
: “I’ve been putting some hours into the Letterpress side of the Book of the Erinyes recently, and have made a fair bit of progress. Yesterday evening I managed to print out the text for the first section…”
Victorian Gothic Revival “Papier Mâché” Binding
: “One of the fashions of the “Gothic Revival” during the mid-1840s to 1860s was for “monastic” style bindings that imitated the Medieval wooden book covers. Rather than reproducing these in wood,…”
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Marbled Paper
: “One of the elements of the handmade Book of the Erinyes will be the use of marbled paper — sometimes on the outside cover, and sometimes on the endpapers/inside cover. As with all the parts of the book,…”
Title and Half-Title Page Proofs (part two)
: “I’m happy to say that I’ve printed out the title and half-title pages. On Wednesday at the Letterpress workshop I monopolised the press to run off 30 copies of each (I’ve finalised the limited edition…”
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Title and Half-Title Page Proofs
: “I’ve just got back from this week’s letterpress workshop where I managed to print some proofs (photo below) of the title and half-title pages of the Book of the Erinyes. These two pages will make…”
Bookbinding Practice
: “As the pace has started to pick up on the Book of the Erinyes project I decided it was time to get some much-needed bookbinding practice. I’d sewn together a collection of blank signatures a week-or-so…”
Letterpress Printing
: “Last year I did an evening course in Letterpress Printing at the Brighton Independent Printmaking centre. Last week Les Ellis, the course tutor, invited me back for a 4-evening follow-on course where I…”
Romilly Saumarez Smith
: “Just got back from seeing Romilly Saumarez Smith: Bookbindings for Eileen Hogan at the V&A. It’s a small exhibition, just outside the National Art Library, but it’s definitely worth a visit. Obviously…”
Research in New York
: “I’m lucky to be on a work trip to New York at the moment, and this morning—my bodyclock still working on UK time, and the rain pouring down—I managed to grab some time to visit the Morgan Library…”
New Erinyes photographs
: “A couple of weeks ago I did the first set of “official” photographs with Dawn (who is modelling in the role of Tisiphone). Despite some problems with my camera (serves me right for being lazy and…”
Inspiration for Books As Art Objects
: “Inspiration #1: The following passage from a wonderful book by Gene Wolfe called The Shadow of the Torturer where the protagonist Severian is listening to the reminiscences of the old blind Librarian,…”
The Erinyes on Twitter
: “A very quick post to say that you can follow the progress of this project (and of my other projects) by following me on Twitter. Just go to twitter.com/lazcorp and click ‘follow’.…”
Furies from the 1930s
: “My friend Michael Kemp just pointed me at an interpretation of the Furies that I hadn’t seen before — Slavko Vorkapić’s excellent montage sequence for the 1934 film Crime Without Passion (written…”
Patience and Serendipity
: “The unplanned suspension of work on the Book of the Erinyes over the past couple of months (due in no small part to moving house) has proved serendipitous — I’ve been thinking a lot about the planned…”
Furies Wanted!
: “Two of the three models I had lined up for this project have had to drop out, so if you fancy being one of the 3 Furies then let me know. The modelling will be fine art nude, but heavily shadowed and…”
Book Bindings and Vine Leaves
: “One of the things I’ve started considering is how to bind the 30 to 50 copies of the Book of the Erinyes. I decided right from the start that they’d all be individually hand-bound and I would try…”