Tunneling Through The Book 1
It was wonderful to teach a workshop on tunnel books for CAFAM‘s monthly Thursday Craft Night. The project connected to both the CHAPTERS: Book Arts in Southern California and Focus Iran 2: Contemporary Photography and Video concurrent exhibitions at the museum.
CAFAM (The Craft and Folk Art Museum) attracts a lively group of enthusiastic makers…and these creatives of all ages and backgrounds took the already cool tunnel book concept to new heights of fun, ingenuity and beauty.
I was lucky to be able to work with these lovely and talented volunteers, Jiae and Allie. They were troopers about setting up, learning the tunnel book structure, and “striking” at the end of the evening.
Our tunnel books were comprised of two accordion sides or “spines”,
a back “cover”
with “cross pieces” added to the bottom of each fold, to create a base from which to build the “story”.
Layers and detail can be added…literally going back in space., the structure creating foreground, middleground and background spaces.
until a scene, design, expression, environment, narrative…is created. In essence, a whole world.
Behold….some of the storied worlds created in our workshop!
You might say, participants offered us a whole new perspective through their works!
Work…
and completion.
Truly a world within a world…
Focus, across the generations…
Pink is a unifier in this family.
Mom’s book…
Older sister’s piece…
Younger sister’s creation
Family affair: Mother and Daughters.
Animal house?
Her Library…complete with a removable book.
Here we see “the screen’ from the perspective of the movie viewers, and the backs of their heads!
All the world’s a stage…and a shadow box.
Land of happy..”When Dreams Meet Reality”.
This maker lined up the cross piece strips before they were attached and made the drawing across their surfaces as one, then broke it up and attached them in the same order to the structure. What a great idea!
Inventiveness knows no bounds. When put in the service of joyful expression, it makes the heart sing.
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