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For the past week I’ve been hard at work constructing a book maquette for my ‘Speed of Dark/Plato’s Home Movies/Blue Line of Woods’ work. While it’s a lot of time and work, I’m really enjoying the process and pleasantly surprised with the results. Check out some photos and videos of the first draft:

The basics of the maquette: It is a 9.5″ x 11″ sized accordion-style book, with a die-cut cover page and folded insert/poster. It has 32 spreads which unfold to be nearly 50 feet long.

The images are tritone prints from the blueprint originals. The title is a riff from a Flannery O’Connor line–traditionally blueprints are referred to as ‘bluelines’.

The ‘narrative’ (if you could call it that) of the book is that of a walk through the woods. The density of the trees increases as you approach the book’s center. Once you reach the thickest part, it begins to thin out until you reach the end. Ideally, the book should be viewed unfolded and fully extended. The binding allows one to remove the accordion part so you can lay it out on the ground or pin it up on a wall.

continuing to generate images for my G.U.T. Feeling project…

Happy New Year!

by H. Armstrong Roberts

All apologies about the silence on this end–lots of travel, family time, and resolution-making occupying my time.

That said, I’m excited for what 2012 holds. I’ll be working full-steam on my project ‘G.U.T. Feeling’ and will be releasing a few small booklets/zines as work progresses. I’m also working on the book for my blueprint work that I made over the past few years–so a good mix of looking back and looking forward, a balance I’m always trying to achieve. Here’s to 2012 and good health!

Experiment for 12/2/11:

Represent the gaseous state using only materials in the solid state.

Experiment for 11/30/11:

Represent the liquid state using only materials in the solid state.

Experiment for 11/27/11:

Make an ideal form out of something less than idea.

Experiment for 11/21/11:

Take videotape, empty (unwind) all of its contents. Examine the tape, search for content, make notes of what you find.