At the end of a residential street in Boston, next to a wood, in balmy (notice I did not say steamy or humid) weather, we show books, drink wine, snack on chips and salsa and talk about our lives as artists. Crazy ideas come to life (like tanning chipmunk skins for binding, books that talk or play music, a puppet book?) and materials and techniques are compared (wood versus linoleum for relief printing). I don't think open caravan is going to be the ultimate business model for selling books, but it certainly is fun for the connections made. I don't have pictures of all the neighbors stopping by and seeing artists' books for the first time, but these show some of the fun:
Wine, books, conversation.
Ashlie Taylor, painter/artist-extraordinaire, rode her bike to the open caravan. Click here to see her beautiful paintings and drawings.
Annie Silverman with her accordion toy theater. Inside are pictures of accordion players in layering dimensions. This is a cousin to our real accordion book.
Dinner afterwards in the pavillion with our hosts Lee McDonald and Anne Marie Stein and friends.
1 comment:
hi again-
So great to meet you last night. Accordions and uke talk and bees and great food. Your paper is so lovely and the headlamp/ paper structure, watermark light show is still playing around in my brain.. gives me shivers..those Swedish papers illuminated.
Glad I shlepped my theater along to meet the other accordion creators.
I liked what you wrote early on about meeting new people and everyone is interesting..
ps.. (you have a typo in your title.. your their is spelled wrong)
I loved your pencil book and the little shoe for chickens.
such a great evening! annie
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