I have decided to work with one of the collectable books; I thought it would be a good idea to take another visit to the woodwork studio and to see what I could do there. I thought it would be a different way to work with the pages of the books rather than just folding them. This process is a lot faster, showing the little patience that I have with books and treating them as harshly as I feel that I have been treated, because of there ever persistent presence. After looking at the tools in the woodwork room, I decided to work with the sander as I thought this would smooth the pages down and I would be able to make a new shape out of the book; obliterating its archetypal form and giving it a new identity.
I decided to round off the corner to the top of the book and the reason I did this, was because I felt that this would mean I was still able to open the book while I was going along. I thought the ink would be smeared across the pages and overall, come out as a black blob because of the heat of the sander, but I was wrong and this was the result.
I think that the curve of the book is interesting and makes for an unusual site, one that I feel came out very well despite how I thought it would end up. I think that the lines in the book show an interesting story on there own and I like the way it is showing the story of the book in like a morse code form; this is how it usually looks to me when I am trying to decipher words.
