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| ©2018 Barry Smith - Reflections, shadows and rust - looking down on the three freestanding books - casting their own light and shadows in the sun |
I have used a bit of the time over the weekend to progress the making of some small metal books inspired by
Maleny Celebration of Books next weekend.
I planned to do: a couple of small (pages are 50mm high and 30mm wide) freestanding sculptural books; and a number of small (pages are 19mm high and 13mm wide) book earrings.
As you see from the photos below I managed to get the freestanding books completed.
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| ©2018 Barry Smith - Opening pages of the small metal books in the vice with tap to protect the silver-plated metal |
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| ©2018 Barry Smith - Each metal book has its own content (word - in the car of these three shine, breathe and wonder) |
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| ©2018 Barry Smith - Shiny covers still in a need of a little cleaning to get rid of the marking used for opening the pages of the books |
And I made a pair of the books for the book earrings. These are tiny siblings of the larger small metal book.
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| ©2018 Barry Smith - Tiny earring books - with their own words (stamped with 1.5mm metal stamp) |
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| ©2018 Barry Smith - This photo shows just how tiny the books for the earrings are |
I hope to get more of the book earrings done during the week and blog on that later.
for the love of books!
ReplyDeleteThese are delightful. Suddenly we were near you, the funeral of a very dear friend (Rainbow Beach) last Thursday and now down staying with his sister on the Gold Coast,no time to see you but I did wave at the Maleny turn off. All very traumatic. Home on Wednesday.
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