Utah:
"I gave a workshop and keynote speech for the concurrent 2018 A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference. My hosts were Maggie Kopp, the rare book librarian, and Christopher McAfee the library’s book and paper conservator. Chris and I had first met in the mid 1990s at the University of Alabama (UA), when Chris was a grad student in the Book Arts Program and I was visiting to give a lecture.
Peter writes: "At that time, in the early 1990s, as the personal computer began to creep into common use, people were constantly asking Donna and I, “Aren’t you worried about the computer replacing the book and putting you out of work?” That constant questioning led to an interesting line of thinking that I found myself exploring ever since. In response I developed a sort of “manifesto” regarding the future of the book, and started sharing my thoughts as I taught bookbinding workshops and gave talks for both community and university book arts programs around the country.
It was on that same day I first met Chris McAfee, as I sat in on a history of the book class being taught at UA, that I came up with the idea of making scrolling books. The teacher was talking about comparing the computer to the book, saying that calling a scrolling computer screen a “page” was like calling an automobile a “horseless carriage” or a radio a “wireless.” We were defining a thing by what came before by until new word, a new language, could be found. This got me thinking about what a book was and was not. UA’s book arts program shared its building with the engineering department, and as I wandered the hallways I wondered how I could get all these engineering majors interested in artists’ books; and I came up with an idea that provided seminal direction for me to explore as a book artists. The book was definitely not what came before it, the scroll. Business majors could relate to scrolling pages. If I made a scrolling book, I would be creating a new word, a new language, as I explored the possibilities created by combining the old and the new ways of combining information and structure. Our latest two books are examples of where that exploration has led. You can find full descriptions of the books and more pictures on our web site.
Piute Creek
Mento Mori
Knoxville:
San Francisco Airport
Philadelphia Airport on route to Knoxville
We spent a day tearing down the shelter and getting the trailer road worthy. Then we removed the fence, pulled the truck and trailer out to the road, replaced the fence, and we are ready to wander!
Our first stop will be Kennesaw State University in Georgia. If you are on our route let us know and we will try to meet up.
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