ArtMetal

I love artists books as much as I like regular books. So, I'll admit that I was a bookworm as a child. Books have always been so comfortable. Metal books are a lot more substantial, but permanent.

In college, I took a couple artist book classes. I never would have considered making one out of metal back then. I made a book that was 4' x4' out of plywood with a 48" piano hinge so that you could turn the pages. Back when you could enlarge up to 800% on a mac, I printed out definitions of the words "open" and "close" and shellacked them onto those 4' pages.

Very obscure, but the point was to open the book, then close the book - how else can you see what's inside?

I taught a sculpture class a while ago and a had a student who seemed unable to progres on his first idea for a project but was able to create an object he was more comfortable with: a copper book with his poetry in it.

Elizabeth M. Meadows
Mother, Metal Sculptor in that order.

"Gotta love a gal with an anvil."
-Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)