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Artist Statement
The poem in this book has been translated from Persian to French to English in an experiment to see what concepts and phrases are literally lost through translation. For the design of this binding, I chose to focus this experiment on the illustrations. I asked my husband, Jason Fletcher, to create a series of illustrations inspired by those in the text. I then created a series of illustrations based on Jason’s drawings. A mix of these drawings became the final design for the binding which is illustrated through onlays, embroidery, and foiled tooling.
Materials and Techniques
Three-Part Bradel Binding: raspberry goatskin, hand-dyed calfskin, cotton embroidery floss; onlays in yellow ochre goatskin, mauve buffalo, light pink buffalo, navy blue buffalo, metallic blue and hand-dyed teal calfskin. Teal buffalo skin endbands, endpapers made with handmade papers in purple cotton, teal kozo, Ghanian kozo with threads, and lilac kozo.
Clamshell Box: Blackberry goatskin, onlays in raspberry and metallic blue goatskin, hand-dyed calfskin and rose buffalo skin, cotton embroidery floss, metallic foil tooling, handmade Lokta paper, aubergine suede.