Showing off?

[Jennifer Wallace]

Last year Carmen Kennedy invited me to collaborate on a book exchange project: she started (made) the book and we each added, sent it back across the Atlantic, added again and again, etc. I really enjoyed this.

I'm involved in a local-ish artists book group and they recently had a table at an adult education centre open day, somewhere that teaches artists book-making courses. The person organising the group's display asked for examples of different forms of mark-making in books, because many new students make a book - blank - and are then lost over how to start filling it. I lent the book Carmen and I made, to show off a much wider meaning of 'making a book' as well as how to fill its pages! Carmen sliced up a large brown paper bag and folded it up to make the book. We then filled the pages with collage of all sorts plus some stamp printing, with a great end result. I must admit I was really proud to be able to lend it, hoping it would maybe open a few eyes?

[William M]

oh, that's great! both the book and being able to share it with a wider audience as an example of what can be done.

[Jennifer Wallace]

It was good to have an opportunity to show mail art to people who are not already in the mail art world.

[Ilya Semenenko-Basin]

I congratulate You.