Two Books In the Mail / Rebecca Guyver and Artlikeart

[Carina]

Rebecca's lovely book is an One Day Journal and has the shape of a circle.

Artlikeart sent me a wonderful envelope which is actually an accordion book, Postal:

Thank you both so much for cool artwork and inspiration!

[Nancy Bell Scott]

That will make the day, Carina, can't wait ---

[Carina]

Thanks Nancy.

and btw I sent something to Old Orchard Beach yesterday :)

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Anything can be anything (my first thought after birth). These boekies certainly are inspirational.

[De Villo Sloan]

If a bag of stones can be m-a, I think journals are very safe. Cheryl Penn did graduate studies on Ray Johnson's collaborative book projects, so we are in safe, safe territory.

Rebecca, the rationalization involved in your creative process - described here and elsewhere - is fascinating.

[Rebecca Guyver]

Svenja, I just posted you a different kind of boekie today!

[Svenja Wahl]

wonderful boekies!!

[Carina]

Good to hear that journals are ma and artist's books can be personal (messy)! It's something I wondered about and has given me a headache.

Hmm, I envy your "work" Rebecca!

[Rebecca Guyver]

And a journal can be very playful too! You have to laugh at yourself, of course! Carina is BRILLIANT at that!

[Rebecca Guyver]

For once I wasn't trying to over-intellectualise… I was only trying to rationalise how I could spend more time messing around and less time engaged in (ha) more important stuff.  It's that Calvinist in me that i am forever trying to surpress, or something!

To me, artist's books can be personal but a journal (if it is about a explicit thinking/making process) is inevitably personal and potentially 'useful' or 'important'. This is, of course, an absurd distinction because play is more often than not the most 'important' part of everything, but it is also that space between the two, the overlap, that I wrestle with all the time… How can it be work if it's fun?

[De Villo Sloan]

Excuse me, I didn't make a distinction between book and journal. I think a journal can be m-a, IMHO. Don't worry about that.