The final edition of books for my Art of the Book II class. A video page-through can be viewed here.
The book is a narrative based on the process of falling asleep and abruptly waking. We had to choose from Julie Chen's Artist’s Book Ideation Cards and create a book from it. It had to include text based on the process of erasure, be highly colorful, have a minimal layout, use a digital technique, have abstract imagery, use transparent/translucent paper, and be bound with a single leaf structure.
Text:
Twilight
Calm before the storm
The night quickly approaches
Lying awake, confined by all four walls
Staring blankly
You begin to drop down
Eyes flutter
Heart beats slow
Emptiness washes over you
Swimming with thought, they too fall away
Dropping down
Unaware of your surroundings
Vivid images before you
People
Places
Things
Faces you can't remember
A beautifully lucid thing
Another drop
A darker place
You can't feel your body
A drop
Dark emptiness
Eyes flutter
Heart beats quicken
Twilight again