SomeBody, the future

 

 

  JOY, HAPPINESS, CONFIDENCE and PEACE, this is what the Navajo people say that all of us deserve.

  Turning the page from the dark to the light, the fresh green of spring and of youth. Here there are the spaces for tools; on the left a knife, scissors and a hammer,

...on the right a screwdriver, pliers, pencil and a credit card. The spaces have yet to be filled, they contain only potential. One tool is damaged by a stab wound, others are open to interpretation. The knife could be put to a different use, how do you interpret what it means?

  

 After deciding which tools would 'read' well in silhouette I chose to use an old workshop method to illustrate life choices. At my college the technicians kept track of tools by having them hung on a board and drawing around each one, if one was in use the outline was a reminder of its absence.

  It was the Wyvern Bindery who constructed the pages into a proper book for me and they made this page completely. It was laser cut, beautifully covered in green silk and then embossed with the lettering.

Wyvern Bindery here

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