Over Christmas I researched films and the start of technicolour with hopes of illustrating another story. When we came back, I chose to use my research to help me illustrate the book I'd been reading, 'Just kids' the memoirs of Patti Smith and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. I found that when it actually came to the illustration I wanted to encorporate the fabrics she described, physically in the book. I also used poems by Rimbaud (who she mentioned often) as a backdrop and scanned quotes from 'Just kids' as the text. However the actual layering of images over fabric distracted from the illustrations to much and even when scanned they seemed overpowering.
So I changed tactic and took a bookbinding workshop, before the actual construction of the book covers I spent all weekend making the books contents. I used a japanese waterbomb structure, usually only intended for 1 page books, to create a series of pages which opened to look like a lantern. The tutors were a lot more responsive to this second book because the illustrations were the focus but it was still complex. I really took to bookbinding and continued to use it in my final project.
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