Sub(missive) continued........... book art and guerrilla stitch up parcel

this was what confronted me today ! the deadline for the bookwork sub(missive) project is 2 March and so much to do.......

Now I feel I've moved on and finished one envelope today - I haven't used my sewing machine for a while and it wouldn't work so I resorted to hand sewing which gives a different 'hemmed in' look to it! I have a 25 year old faithful Swiss Bernina so hope I can find someone to fix it !

and made a cover (Leslie you might recognise this?)

A friend lent me a typewriter and I've started another envelope which will contain a list of 'in' words more to follow in a week!

Now for something different - the lovely Grrl+dog sent me a parcel

all the way from Australia cos I got closest to the answer to her question about a guerrilla's first objective - read about it here... this is what she sent me (all yummy stuff -and no bananas!!)Rubber stamps 0-9

Distress ink pad - spiced marmalade (delicious)

orange tissuey paper

2 hand knitted squares with pom poms (perfect for a pommie!)

Kangaroo from the set of 'Australia'

Bunch of labels with colourful ties and great quotes

1950,s magazine sheets, old labels, admit 1 tickets and letter

A knitting book

Kangaroo fell out of the box exhausted after the long trip!!

Don't you just love these quotes?

Wow - I tell you I was gob smacked by her generosity! Thank you Grrl

Book art collaboration

I am making an artist bookwork (not sure if it will be an actual book at the moment -read on and see why!!!)

These are the instructions that were posted on Facebook in December - there are 50 participants ..........

(sub)Missive a Book Art Collaboration, is a new mail art project investigating the dissemination of ideas with particular reference to (mis)communication and power relations.
Taking the hierarchical construct as a brief, each participant will devise a set of instructions to create a new bookwork. Instructions may be comprehensive or restricted, ranging from the single word to the diagrammatic. Using the social networking forum as a platform for collaboration, each participant will contact the interested party above them in the attending list, after December 15th, for an address to post instructions to. Participants must post instructions out before January 5th. (so each participant both sends and receives instructions) Once instructions have been received, the collaborative partner will have a further 6 weeks to respond to and create their bookworks for possible inclusion alongside the Leeds International Artist Book Fair. Please retain letters and envelopes as these will be exhibited alongside finished works. Participants may want to consider this in the aesthetic of their instructions.

I sent off my instructions at the beginning of January to Vivien in Colchester, UK and at the beginning of this week I got my instructions in the post from Samantha all the way by snail post from Australia here is what I got......(this girl even has a typewriter!!) - click on the images for the detail

and WHEN I opened IT UP this ...........

how EXCITING is THAT!!!! so I've bought a carton of goat's milk as a start!!!! I forgot to photocopy my instructions before I posted them so I can't show you them I'm afraid. But I will post images from the final exhibition exhibits in March.