Last day before enrolment at UWE and the chance to meet, officially, some of the people I've been hanging around for some time. I've many other different strands to pull in.
The latest one is the new e-newsletter that the bookarts list is about to start publishing. Called The Bonefolder, it'll be a peer-reviewed newsletter about book arts. Probably with a committed regular set of commentators who move mostly in the book-art-as-binding/total book end of things, if the content of the book arts list is anything to go by. It does have times where the history of book arts is discussed, however, and I'm sure if I trawl the archives a bit i can find out that people have in the past written about the creative side of it as well: how do we create the books? How do we decide on the content? Most importantly for me, why do we choose book art over something else? Perhaps I can work up something on these themes that might be suitable. Certainly it would be no bad thing to begin publishing pieces, however modestly.
Other things include my two outstanding exhibits at Ale& Porter, my commissioned work for the same, my other artworks, my commissioned design work from the library, the class I'm about to teach at Spike, and oh, hey, how about I learn some research techniques and project management skills too? When I'm not grinning at the thought of the good stuff I'm going to get to do, it seems a bit overwhelming. But it is, after all, work i like doing, which is why I'm doing it.
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