Title page

 

Some will be aware that I have made an unbound artists' book (see photo below) with seven brass sail shaped pages with the lines of a seven line prose poem stamped on the pages. The poem is titled Betrayal - it refers to people from the highland Clearances forced to become fisherfolk. 

See poem at the end of the blog post. 

On my to do list I had a task to make a title page for the book so that it could be displayed in the exhibition in the Strathnaver Museum's annexe with the title page facing upwards and downwards so that visitors can see how the pages are formed and see the stamped word betrayal. The opening photo shows how the pages will be displayed.

Following are a few process photos from today.

And a couple more photos of the very highly polished pages follow.

I was pleased with getting this little task ticked off my to do list. 

The words of the poem follow.

Betrayal

coerced by an inhumane experiment

farmers unaccustomed to the sea 

tried to draw subsistence from a destructive sea 

on a rocky and perilous shore

forced to purchase unsafe boats

served a deadly apprenticeship to the sea

a multitude found a watery grave