It's monarch butterfly season.
Almost twenty years ago, I produced a collaborative artists' book, Bugs of Summer, with artist Jody Williams through her press Flying Paper Press, in 1998.
We invited 14 other artists to supply a piece of line art about a bug, and we (mostly Jody, who is a printer) screenprinted them, and then we bound them into this accordian book. It was an edition of 125.
The cover is Chiyogami dragonfly paper.
Mine is the first illustration ^ above--it's about how we kids used to collect monarch caterpillars and keep them in jars, hoping they'd turn into butterflies. We didn't know to give them the necessary milkweed, so, alas, they just died.
To the right of mine is Lucinda's firefly-eating bat;
and then Jody's "I did kill two kaydids.... and now I am sorry."
I like working on group projects--it helps me get stuff done! I would like to do more... maybe, sometime. (They also involve working with other people, which can be a pain.)
Last week I saw this public-art mural across the street from Stephen Be's yarn store:
The text reads:
Almost twenty years ago, I produced a collaborative artists' book, Bugs of Summer, with artist Jody Williams through her press Flying Paper Press, in 1998.
We invited 14 other artists to supply a piece of line art about a bug, and we (mostly Jody, who is a printer) screenprinted them, and then we bound them into this accordian book. It was an edition of 125.
The cover is Chiyogami dragonfly paper.
Mine is the first illustration ^ above--it's about how we kids used to collect monarch caterpillars and keep them in jars, hoping they'd turn into butterflies. We didn't know to give them the necessary milkweed, so, alas, they just died.
To the right of mine is Lucinda's firefly-eating bat;
and then Jody's "I did kill two kaydids.... and now I am sorry."
I like working on group projects--it helps me get stuff done! I would like to do more... maybe, sometime. (They also involve working with other people, which can be a pain.)
Last week I saw this public-art mural across the street from Stephen Be's yarn store:
The text reads:
Monarch butterflies are symbols of free migration in North American, but their numbers are in decline and they need our help.
Mural by Roger Preet and Barry Newman
Sponsored by the Center for Biological Diversity
hmmm...I wonder if I have a copy of that book...or did we share it?
ReplyDeleteDon't you have one? If not, I have one unassembled extra one you could have.
ReplyDeleteI don't know... if I have one... and I think I should... I haven't seen it around. I'll have to scour my bookshelves and see if it turns up. I honestly don't remember seeing one...and I think I would have noticed, when I was doing all that searching for my sketchbook. Though that did eventually turn up...so maybe my eyesight is in overlook mode.
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