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I changed to another project on my latest time in the studio. I've been working on a 100 page accordion book for The Lucerne Project , which also has its own blog (follow that link to see). I'm up to 50 pages, comprised of signatures of three pages with a tab to join them together. I spent a few hours gluing the tabs and joining the signatures up. Here's the table with the materials set up: I have an antique 9 lb iron that I use to press the pages together to solidify the bond: And here's a view of the accordion book standing up: It'll take me about another month to do the other pages, which I am creating by taking 'found' images of people in Lucerne, making 'damaged photos' of them, and transferring them to printmaking paper using the paper-litho transfer process. When that's done, I'll make a clamshell box to put them in. This is all practice for the Artist's Book Class that I will teach at Interlochen this summer. Registratio...

Another accordion book rolls off the Hartigan studio press: It was created using the same procedure as previous examples of its kind: take damaged photos of drawings, family photos, photos and drawings of mine buildings, and superimpose them on heavy printmaking paper; write a short phrase for each print, then lightly edit them so that they run together better; print text onto images; bish-bosh, sorted. Here is an example page:   Subscribe to Praeterita in a reader