hertha

Year: 2016

  • Book Project: #23 Making the Book

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    Book Project: #23 Making the Book

    I had two options for the book: have it professionally printed or make the book myself.  I did both.  I decided to send the book off to a printer as a ‘plan B’ in case I ran into serious problems with making the book myself.   Making a book isn’t that difficult, although making it…

  • Book Project: #22 Book Reviews

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    As suggested in earlier posts, I have gone through the evolving work several times with peers, faculty and most recently a visiting artist (Enrique Colina).  The context of these discussions is important as it places certain limitations on the reviewers that I need to take into consideration. First, we are often looking at the book…

  • Book Project: #21 Title Revisited

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    The evolution of the book’s narrative has got to a point where I can settle on a title: 4 Generations and a Migration.  While the globalization-cultural theme remains, my preference is to leave that a little more under the covers. An interpretation for the reader to draw; developed after some reflection (if they get there). On…

  • Book Project: #20 Transferring to the Page

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    Book Project: #20 Transferring to the Page

    It is now at the point where all the pieces need to come together — the images; text; pacing — to form the physical artifact.   From the outset, I have imagined the book as a series of chapters: an introduction, followed by chapters for each generation, etc.  My initial thought was to structure these…

  • Book Project: #19 Adding Text

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    It’s now come time to add the textual component.  While the images themselves convey a narrative, text can be used to fill in gaps or give more context to the reader to allow them to form more questions; to be left with more ambiguity.   I need the text to do a few things: Text…