Draft presentation ideas, future paper materials

I've been mulling over how to present the three Little Books, with a view to a couple of exhibits, if they actually happen, but we do have to live in the subjunctive at the moment.

Anyway, here are a couple of rough thoughts

The top one is a kind of analog landscape, the linen echoing the books. I'm leaning towards it, rather than the bottom one which looks a bit busy.

This could all change. The frame you see is a shadow box, deep frame which won't crush the contents. They'll be behind glass, secured to the background burlap.

The strip of linen I dyed long ago.  The background fabric and linen are from a work I exhibited and am now upcycling.

This is just a way of thinking about how to do this presentation without committing to framing until it's ready.

And this may just look like a terribly messy living room.

 In fact it's two things at once: very overdue massive pruning of begonias, both of which were nearly six feet tall and staggering all over the place.

 One I grew from a single leaf, the other from a crafty cutting from a friend's house..gardener's larceny.

This little plant grew from a single leaf I pushed in at the base of the parent plant.

 Both the big plants will get their revenge by bushing out and growing rapidly to make up the shocking loss.

But it's also harvesting of plant material for my next foray into papermaking, when the weather's a bit warmer.

This pruned stuff will be cut up, cooked to a pulp, blended with abaca, to make paper. Watch this space, you'll see how.