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| ©2019 Barry Smith - Book 1 on Compassion |
Fiona and I are taking part in
an artists book exhibition in July. The exhibition has the theme of compassion. Of course July seems quite a long way in the future; but you can bet we will start to run out of time. We have committed to making 6 books - I started and completed my first over the weekend.
I like my artists books to have content. In this first book I have used a quote from John O'Donohue: "May I live this day compassionate of heart, clear in word, gracious in awareness, courageous in thought, generous in love."
The book is made from beautiful patinated copper salvaged from a very old copper laundry boiler.
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| ©2019 Barry Smith |
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| ©2019 Barry Smith - Leaves of the book cut |
The book pages are 12cm high by 8cm wide. It has: 7 leaves; three pages with sections of the quote stamped into them; and is held together with 11 brass rivets.
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| ©2019 Barry Smith - Stamped pages and other leaves given a gentle grind to remove sharp edges |
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| ©2019 Barry Smith - Opening the book in the vice |
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| ©2019 Barry Smith - Beautiful patina and words (clear in word, gracious in awareness) |
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| ©2019 Barry Smith - Small 3D copper book |
I love the solid feel of this book - both in terms of the metal and the beautiful words.
So so beautiful B. I love the space between the words, the breaths you can take, the meditative nature of it all...
ReplyDeletesuch a beautiful book!
ReplyDeleteBarry - the patination is exceptional ... and I love the thought of you striking the quote, letter by letter ... imagining those words are now a part of you
ReplyDeleteLove that quote.
ReplyDeleteLove this, Barry!
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