With the largest book I was aiming for peace, just paying tribute. Not to take anything, but give a gift to the people who made such works in the past. To show that creation has not ceased and thank them for their contribution and hoping their spirits rest well.
Each corner piece and clasp base has in its center a 4 mm natural citrine gemstone, surrounded by six 3 mm lab grown sapphires. A total of 60 gemstones are attached to the silverwork.
Inspired by the ornamentation of Bulgarian, Balkan and Byzantine bindings, I wanted to experience the attitude of the old masters when they worked.
In the middle books, the storm subsides, the frame makes a resistance, forces the storm into tracks and gives direction. The shapes are stiffer and subdued, but they again struggle with the proportions of the cover. It is as if the memory becomes clearer, but still in a fog.
The smallest journals possess a storm in the arrangement, the decoration is elongated and incomplete, hidden by the golden winds of oblivion.
The endbands are made in reverence to the Gothic technique of old with woven leather strips going through the leather on the spine and through a hemp cord core sewn onto to the book body.
This ledger style endpaper is sewn onto the book body and provides excellent protection to this vulnerable place in the book structure.The paper is handmade here in the bindery.
