Artists Books

This was made for Kara and Stephen to be used as a part of a bouquet of books at their wedding. For a book to be incorporated into a bouquet, I felt the book had to satisfy certain requirements: 1. Be a book; 2. Look flower-like; and 3. Be light enough to carried on a stem.

The book came with an instruction for converting it into a flower:

  1. Pick up the stem piece and slide off the bottom bead. You now have two stems.
  2. Open the book into a circular form.
  3. Insert the stem with the stamen from the top of the opened book through both book rings.
  4. Insert the stem with the leaves from the bottom through both book rings AND into the top bead – it will fit.  The trick is to open out the leaves and to keep the stamen and the top bead close to the book edge.
  5. Insert the bottom bead and push up until it fits tightly.
  6. Arrange the stamen and the leaves as desired.

Text

A toast to the bride and groom!

May your hands be forever clasped in friendship
and your hearts joined forever in love.
— Anonymous

Always speak well of each other.
Believe the best is yet to come.
Cherish every moments as if it were your last.
— Mary Lenore Quigly

Cherish every moment as if were your last

Never above you.
Never below you.
Always besides you.
— Walter Winchell

When the roaring flames of your love
Have burned down to embers,
May you find that you’ve married your best friend.
— Anonymous

Do not forget
To look at each other often
As though
It were the first,
Or the last time.
— Unknown

When the roaring flames of your love
Have burned down to embers,
May you find that you’ve married your best friend.
— Anonymous

CONGRATULATIONS!

Penny Nii, For Kara

Dimensions
2″h x 1.5″w

Content
Good wishes on a wedding day.

Structure
Small rings along the spine allow the pages to  open into a circular flower-like form. The opened book can be attached to a wire stem — it comes with an assembly instruction

Technique
Printed pages, rubber stamps.

Year
2003

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