My little pocket books are @ 3" x 4" and they fit quite comfortably in pant and jacket pockets. When I first started making these visual ditties as alternatives to traditional holiday cards, I had no idea if people would like them or even buy them, but they did. They seem to work best with simple accordion folds, front/back text, and covers affixed to the ends of the fold.
My creative challenge with these books is to stay inspired--to keep coming up with fresh ideas for
covers, folios, folds, bindings, and text. How they may be used for other purposes. Come to think of it, since they are a cross between greeting cards and little books, I could call them Nef's Bards--but then I'd have to use poems for text to make that work and a few visuals, of course.
I think I just started a new project.
Living into the marriage of images and words is one of the great joys of my artistic life. There's so much freedom in knowing that I can write not only with words but with colors, photographs, drawings, and objects affixed to the page. There are days when a simple stroke of turquoise paint across a stark white page says it all; when crumbled dried leaves glued below a sentence complete the thought; when illustrations insist on being commas, semicolons, ellipses, and exclamation marks. I especially love those moments when my words and images begin to make exquisite love on the page and something weird, wild and wonderful is born, like a song.
