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A blog for creative types interested in the (un)conventional world of Book Arts! Posts here will feature artist's books, illustration, book binding, typography, sketch-booking, scrap-booking, print-making, paper making, altered books, how to guides, zines, paper engineering and more! Feel free to submit your own work, thoughts around the subject, or even just inspiration new and old.
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Burning Me Open by Alicia Bailey
Handmade artist’s book of linear illustration and erotic poetry. The book pages are transparent, and thus allow sections of several pages to be viewed at once. The pages are rigid and thick, designed to display well both flat or upright. When displayed upright, lighting can be adjusted for increased interplay between the line illustrations and the shadows they cast.
Text selection from the book:
there is one who touches me so it burns
my hands open
at their feeling of
the length of me
This is a single point binding that explores the social acceptability of sex. Done for my Artist Books class at MICA in the fall of 2010. The pin up girls represent the acceptable form, but these ladies have a secret. Drawn in invisible ink on each pin up (visible under black light) is a illustration of a fetish. From Bondage to Pony Play, these ladies have done it all. Definitions of the fetish are written on the back of each card for those that want to learn more.
Black light photos to follow!
My most favorite thing I have ever read
Kama Sutra by Malika Favre
This cover was rejected by Penguin for being too tame and not sexy enough.
… How is this not sexy enough?! Intense cover!