My friend (and colleague) Tim Wood and I are working on a couple of book projects.  We’re creating the books themselves.  In other words, form is the leading the way on these. The first one we started about a year ago and is an ever-expanding  pair of duplicate hand-made books.  We each add bits and pieces to it and hand it back and forth.  I’m hoping that in final form it will be an untameable beast.  (A page from this project was published in the final print issue of sleepingfish).  Eventually, if you’re reading this blog, you may find one of these books in your mailbox one afternoon.

The other project is a series of cards.  The cards are small squares.  It began when Tim printed lines of text on a few cards, and then I drew a pictures on a few cards in reply, he then responded with text, and I responded with drawings, in kind, etc.  (Tim doesn’t just write text; his presentations are as integral as his words. Look for Tim’s essay on Robert Grenier – with Grenier’s own colorful edits – in the next Action,Yes for more on his ideas concerning the concrete nature of text.) The goal is to create a stack of these text and image cards for a book arts exhibit this summer.  We will make several copies of each card and offer visitors hand-made folder books in which to tuck the cards in whatever manner they choose – creating their own books for display.