The birthday card is based on a Victorian puzzle purse. There is a 2005 because that is the year of the recipient’s birth.
The paper for the folded card is 9″ x 9″ which results in a 3″ folded card.
The black lines at the bottom are Will in a modified Morse code.
Virginia Woolf Quote–Lock up your libraries, if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Freedom of Thought
Pit-fired Beads and Knotted Fiber Closure
Paste Paper
Lock Up Your
Libraries If You Like;
But There Is No Gate,
No Lock, No Bolt
That You Can Set Upon The
Freedom Of My Mind.
Note Envelope
Notes
Notes
Back Cover
Binding
20250116
Quote used–Just because you are taught that something is right and everyone believes it is right, it does not make it right.
When I looked at the images, I realized I forgot to use stamps to number the pages. Maybe today.
My last name in code.
Materials–monoprints, paper,roofing felt, fiber, metal,chalk, PVA
Scale–5.75″ x 6.5″ x 1.5″
Quote used–Be the things you loved most about the people who are gone.
It may or may not be a Buddha quote.
Materials–Monoprints, paper, fiber, metal, PVA
Scale– 1.5″ x 9.75″ x 4.5″
Ray Badbury quote–There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
This is the second time I used burnt matches for binary code. The large single matches on a card are spacers between words.
Do the colors of the cards mean anything? Yes, modified Morse code. The layout is the repeated word Read.
Page 1 There is more
Page 2 than one way
Page 3 to burn a book
Page 4 . And the
Page 5 world is full
Page 6 of people
Page 7 running about
Page 8 with lit
Page 9 matches.
Envelope for Notes on Piece
Materials–Monoprints, rust paper, paper, burnt matches, clip nuts, safety pins, metal, waxed linen, cotton, pit-fired bead.
Scale–11”x6.5”x2.5”
Used a Christopher Hitchens quote–A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realization that you can’t make old friends.
Cover Code is Old Friends
A Melancholy
Lesson of
Advancing Years
Is The Realization
That You Can’t
Make Old Friends
.
Notes Envelope
Notes
Back Cover
Materials–monoprints, tree wrap, paper, metal, fiber, PVA
Scale–6.25″ x 5.75″ x 1″
Origami Wallet Made with a Monoprint.
Replacement Wallet Front
Replacement Wallet Back
Materials–cardstock, monoprints, adhesive, sealant, elastic band.
Scale–4″ x 2.75″ .25″
Code on front of the card is Happy Birthday.
Monoprint of a Brugmansia Leaf
Ignorance combined with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice. Based on a James Baldwin quote.
Materials–monoprints, fiber, packing envelope, paper, ink, adhesive.
Scale–23.75″ x 8.5″ x .25″
My niece is in an PhD/MD program. She is now a PhD doctor and recently started her medical rotations. Since she will have no time for gardening or much of anything other than work. I made her a little greeting with a few dried plants from my gardens.
Interesting that I did not use any code. Good thing?
The monoprints are peculiar in that they are not my typical palette. Well, when I was working in clay I used some lead glazes that resulted in gorgeous orange surfaces.
I used a sealant on the pages that was to have been matte. The shiny surfaces made it complicated to take photos. I repeatedly took them, over and over and over. Need to mail the card today. Time to stop.
These were taken on a piece of cork, near a north east window, with diffused light.
