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Next Big Thing / interview

INSIDE FRONT COVER

SHOWING 4 RAISED CORDS

AND ANTIQUE MARBLED BOOK BOARD

What is the working title of the book?

PRACTICE books - a series of sketchbooks 

letterpress hand-bound unique

each is a compilation of pages/papers - 

most from other books that have been deconstructed

Within the series each book has a working title

and by working, I mean titles are printed & cut

waiting the final artificer's touch:

SOMA TOXIQUE LIMINAL

iCHING/iCHANCE WHY TIP-TOE

     MINOR/MIDDLE/MINI

Where did the idea come from for the book SERIES?

The idea for this series came after making a larger series

of sketchbooks. I'm a letterpress printer and I make books.

I have been taking apart books and printing over them for

all the years I've had a press. It's what you can't really do

in photoshop but wish you could. So take that practice 

off the press and fold/sew/bind it back into a book.

It's like palimpsest x 3.

What genre does your book fall under?

BLANK BOOKS......... oh, my! that sounds so dismissive,

yet if I say ARTISTS' BOOK / PAPER & INK AS CONTENT ........?

Is there not poetry in the spaces between the letters?

Is there not thinking in markmaking?

Is there not medicine in an object?

What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?

First I have to comment on the word "rendition".

I can no longer use it because of it's association with "extraordinary".  Words get contaminated!

Second I'd want my books to be found in the short film:  The Lost Thing.

And if not there, then in the short animation: ...... The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?

30 spokes converge on a hub

but it's the EMPTINESS

that makes a wheel work

pots are fashioned from clay

but it's the HOLLOW that makes a pot work

windows and doors are carved for a house

but it's the spaces that make a house work

existence makes a thing useful

but NON-EXISTENCE makes it work.

---- iCHING/TAO

{ is it the "." at the end that makes a sentence?

  is it the lower case "i" that makes it branded? }

How long did it take to write the first draft of the manuscript?

I completed the first practice book within days - that includes

gathering/finding/folding/designing juxtaposition/sewn/bound

Who or what inspired you to write this book?

Xu Bing

iFEAR of losing Italic / markmaking by hand

WHERE I LIVE / WHAT THE SKY SEES

What else about your book might pique the reader's interest?

I use real carbon papers, real graphite coated computer grid papers,

real handmade papers, real printed papers, real staple holes,
real suminagashi marbling, real book boards, real plastic, 
real metal, real pigments, real design and surreal point of view.

QuaQuaversal - my books can be read from any direction.

Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?

The beauty of being a bookbinder, letterpress printer, markmaker all in one!

I have a show at Site SantaFE April 20-21, Santa Fe, NM

and they will carry my books in their bookstore.

I'm also represented by Vamp & Tramp.

Suzanne Vilmain
counting coup press
suzanne@vilmain.net

http://counting-coup-press.blogspot.com/