Last night I brought all my prints and pages home with me to start putting my book together. I cut and folded my inkjet pages of the city of Liverpool and printed off a cityscape photograph on some red paper for my blizzard binding. I wanted the image of the city to be visible on the binding and for it to be red, the colour of my husbands football team – LFC!
To elevate the relief prints above my photographic city images I need to make small concertina folds and place them at the outside edges of each centre fold. Then I can glue the relief print pages to the uppermost fold.
I’ve realised as I thought through how this would work that this will give me an area, or space, in which another image can be sited.
I have some screenprints of trees from my local park which I had prepared in the screenprint demo last week and I’ve decided to use them for my elevated concertina folds. They will represent the green spaces that have been important to me in Liverpool, Calderstones Park especially. I’ve cut them so that they make a continous image when they are positioned together as the book closes.
But I didn’t have time to put it all together last night, so I’ll have to cut the appertures in the relief prints and glue them in to the concertina folds this morning – and print the cover with the title ‘Finding Home’ using Joe’s polymer relief plate, which he has offered to process for me.
I’ll just have to hope I can get some time to myself…………………………..
