{"id":262,"date":"2012-05-01T12:17:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T12:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/?p=262"},"modified":"2016-05-26T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T10:32:00","slug":"more-on-the-art-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/more-on-the-art-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the art of books&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing my last post about the arts &#8211; and book art in particular &#8211; has got me re-visiting my own creative projects &#8211; most of which have been under wraps for far too long.<\/p>\n<p>So spent an evening foraging in the loft for sketch books and work samples from my days studying textiles at Morley College in London.  <\/p>\n<p>First thought:  What a lot of  stuff you accumulate when you start making!  Or rather experimenting &#8211; with  dye, stitch, print and so on.  That was always the fun part as I recall;<\/p>\n<p>But amongst the chaos &#8211; a few nuggets!  And then these photos of an installation piece exhibited at the Morley Gallery in 2007 following a year experimenting with paper making, paper casting and book binding.  A walk through book  exploring the symbolism of books and personal history.  <\/p>\n<p>And so inspired I have gifted myself half a day each week to start work again&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-262 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.yoga-4-all.co.uk\/wp_news\/more-on-the-art-of-books\/book_five_small\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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