Process for making a collaborative mail art book

[Cleveland Wall]

So, looking at The Crimson Giant and The Tower of Babel, I am wondering about the process for bringing the different parts together. Does the book travel around with each person adding to it and sending it on, or are all the parts sent to one place & assembled there? 

[cheryl penn]

In the instance of the new proposed collaborative book launched by De Villo and myself , Project 26 - you're invited by the way :-) each participant will have to make 26 copies of their section and post to each of the 26 people invloved in the project - that way everyone gets everyone elses section.  That seems like a fair way to do it, rather than add an pass where one never gets to keep the art work?  Thats how the Crimson Giant project worked too - there are 7 of us, each with our own copies. The binding of course is left to the owner, but instructions on how to bind were blogged.  Did I answer you correctly?

[Cleveland Wall]

That makes sense--what a great idea! I got the invite for Project 26 shortly after I posted the question. I'm looking forward to participating in that one. :)

[De Villo Sloan]

Hi CW, too many typos. Had to start again. I was in TCG project. You make your chapter. You send copies of your chapter to everyone else in the project. In the end, everyone has all the chapters. You assemble it and bind it yourself. Cheryl Penn is a focal point for binding and assembling information. Also, people usually post chapters here at the IUOMA, which generates some good discussion. Once you learn the process, it works very well, I think.

[Laurence Roberts]

This has been very helpful in clarifying things for me.

So it is not 25 copies of the 'first' piece, but 26  pieces each made by hand ?  That's a lot better than scans or photocopies.

 

Looking forward to it very much; and glad to be part of it.-- thanks,

 

Laurence

[Laurence Roberts]

Thanks ever so, that's very helpful (and a bit of a relief, if the truth be known ). I had thought it was sending copies and perhaps adding paint, marks etc to each one to make it unique yet within the original work concept-reality.  

 

Then I got the impression I'd got it wrong. I'm pretty new to iuoma and to all this so don't really know 'the norms' / what's what ! :)

 

Btw do you have any snese of a dealine or anthing like that ? 

Great hearing from you  (btw your piece has not arrived yet with me--but the post seems very slow at the mo-- except within uk !)

 

best wishes

 

Laurence