Using a fold­ing tech­nique I picked up online (like a tramp dur­ing fleet week, the tem­plate screamed at me from across the dock), new books spring forth (not fall back) from the stu­dio. Acquired a 1938 sixth grade geog­ra­phy book “The New World Past and Present” and after read­ing all about the South after the Civil War which wasn’t at all civil, now was it?,

I decided to rip out the map pages and fold them into nice lit­tle NuvoFluxus Artist Books, the first of a series of 8-​page mini-​books. Well, those looked pretty cool but rather skimpy and anorexic. For the first book, I stacked 10 – 12 of the mini-​books, glued them together with ES6000 glue, and then bound them with a nice cover made from a stack of ACEO’s that were lying around, doing noth­ing, just tak­ing their own art­ful time wait­ing to become some­thing more than the mere cards they were. No one, so far, has jumped up and hollered “WE want SOME MORE of YOUR Art CARDS! NOW!” so I knew it was safe to include them in this art project.

The 8-​page mini-​book fold direc­tions are sim­ple to fol­low. Fold page in half fold in half again – then one more time, open and cut … ooops, that is dif­fi­cult to explain with­out the pix. Cre­at­ing Artist’s Books, or should I say Artist Books since they’re just mine? is reward­ing and moves my cre­ative guid­ing hand in a pos­i­tive direction.

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Go to ThinkQuest and fol­low their direc­tions. Inter­est­ing part is, any page will do, any size piece of paper. So the 6“x9” geog­ra­phy book pro­duced a really nice palm-​size book. As pre­vi­ously stated, I used the end­pa­per from the book, really nice art deco look to it, and cre­ated the bind­ing and cover. On oth­ers, I used ACEOs as cov­ers and bound the books with fabric.

These pho­tos were taken with the cam­era on my MacAir so the qual­ity is not exactly top notch, but you can at least get an idea of the project. It’s an altered book squared, because I am cre­at­ing an altered book from the text­book and I am mak­ing books from the altered book and if you look into a

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mir­ror and hold it just right in front of another mir­ror and hold these books in your hand between those two mir­rors, the books will go on into infinity…

And still, no one would read them.

They are my first

NuvoFluxus Book Col­lec­tion:
Ten Vol­umes of Point­less Beauty and Never-​Ending Joy.

And now, you too, can face an end­less evening of unbri­dled joy, of pas­sion untamed, of love that has no bound­aries, all because you read my blog post and know the hap­pi­ness I feel when I palm this lit­tle beau­ties. Aren’t you happy for me? Why don’t you make a NuvoFluxus vol­ume of your own, so you too can feel my joy…

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