Waterfall book

 I participated in a small workshop with Sandra Pearce at the Redlands Art Gallery on Sunday morning. It is in the style of a concertina book with the pages sewn into the ‘valleys’ of the folded concertina base. As it was the theme of waterfalls based on the current exhibition of Rachael Wellisch Polymorphic Magic : Textiles Transformed. Her pieces were blue and white and inspired the falling of water in the waterfall. I have tried to go from light to dark as the water could be white and frothy falling to a deep dark pool at the bottom of the drop. 

We then made a smaller version with no sewing of the signatures. Instead double sided tape was used. Again using up all the bits and pieces from the sewn, larger books. A riotous mess of papers being torn and stitched , cut and assembled, planned and gathered, held and dropped .