Sweetness

I was trying to remember when I started calling you sweetness. I honestly don't know.  

  

My most recent book came from a short exchange between me and my husband.  At some point in our marriage my husband began calling me sweetness.  I'm a serial nicknamer and thus I have allowed him a few of his choosing.  

I first designed a print taken from the sucrose molecule and then printed it along with text of our short email chain.  I also printed the molecule pattern on the outside flypages. 

Then I bound the two sheets into a single signature using a butterfly stitch.  I secured the tale with a small silver bead I found in the Muttrah souk here in Muscat and a small pull tag.  I housed the book in a slipcase that has a small paper collage and the full sucrose image lightly transferred onto the front using gel medium.  

I've been trying to devise projects that are more meaningful than the blank journals I've been working on for the past few years.  I've found it more successful to start with text - something personal or meaningful to me and work out from there instead of devising the structure and working backwards.  

I've been more productive in my studio the last few months that the last two years combined - 

pictures forthcoming. 

Here's to a year of fruitful making.