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Chromatic Interactions III

August 14, 2017 By Debra Disman

“CHAPTERS: Book Arts in Southern California” presented at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in LA.

I was commissioned to create an interactive book.

I created “Chromatic Interactions”

Chromatic Interactions is a flag book is comprised of an accordion spine, front and back covers, and flag pages which are pockets with windows cut out of them to reveal both front and back of the cards that visitor participants wrote and drew on, then inserted into the pockets.

 The front and back covers had windows cut out of them that correlated with the windows cut out of the flag pocket pages.

People’s responses, offerings, additions and interactions surprised me…they really did pause and participate.

This is one of my favorites:

May we all have…Joy…in the morning, in the night…all the time.

As Much As Possible.

JOY

Filed Under: Artists' Books Tagged With: "CHAPTERS: BOOK ARTS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA", "CHROMATIC INTERACTIONS", ARTIST'S BOOKS, BOOK ART, BOOK BOARD, CAFAM, CRAFT AND FOLK ART MUSEUM, FILE CARDS, FILE FOLDERS, Flag Book, Handmade Books, HAPTIC, INTERACTIVE BOOK, PARTICIPATORY ARTISTS" BOOK, PARTICIPATORY ARTWORK

Chromatic Interactions I

August 11, 2017 By Debra Disman

Chromatic Interactions I

“CHAPTERS: Book Arts in Southern California” presented at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in LA.

I was commissioned to create an interactive book.

I created “Chromatic Interactions”

It was eye-opening for me to see what people wrote and drew, and how the piece changed over time.

I will be exploring this through a series of posts, now that the show is over, and CAFAM was kind enough to save and give to me many of the file cards added to the book by patrons/visitors/participants…interacting.

Flag book. Stitched flag pockets with windows cut into them.

Accordion spine.

A focus on file folders.

Flag pocket and cover windows align, allowing messages to show through, and creating a tunnel effect.

Color, line, word, image, added by the viewer, become participatory art making and collaborator.

Book board.

Found file folders crumpled to create surface texture.

Haptic.

Here is some of what Museum visitor participants wrote…

TIME

“…all slow…”

After the US election.

Did they mean “irrelevant” No???

“There once was…”

Packing it in.
Successful life…validation

“Beautiful
I’m blinded by the light.”

“Mosaic” flower

Wilder tale

E X T R A P O L A T E

So glad, Inez!

Full…
And fuller.

More

To

Come

Filed Under: Artists' Books Tagged With: ARTIST'S BOOKS, Book Artists, Book Arts, Bookmaking, CAFAM, Flag Book, Handmade Books, HAPTIC, INTERACTIVE BOOK, Participatory Culture, The Book As Art, The Craft and Folk Art Museum

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