We all have stories. Each experience, emotion and adventure, each person or place we’ve encountered or imagined, unfolds though our personal take on life to create the stories we live. A fold book is a creative way to use images and/or words to address what we would like to express. Fold books are intimate. They can be created with a variety of media; gouache, colored pencil, marker, inks, collage, watercolor. They fold up to one square or rectangle but open up to be displayed as a long, double sided work of art. They have roots in manuscript illustration or story books. One thing I love about fold books is that they are, at the same time, one work of art and several works of art that flow into one another to create a unified whole. Like a Mobius strip, they end where they begin, the cover is also the last page. A fold book takes the viewer, as well as the artist/writer on a magical journey. The combination of words and imagery powerful, touching minds, touching hearts.
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Carla, your foldbook class energized my muse. I had stalled due to the pandemic. I learned so much and had so much fun!
I had so much fun creating my fold book in your class. It took on a life of its own. I especially liked the parallel with illuminating a manuscript and how that could found its way into my fold book..