Follow your bliss...: The Book of Fragments, and Fragments in a Bottle

Saturday, May 13, 2017

The Book of Fragments, and Fragments in a Bottle

The Bottle of Fragments with the Book of Fragments

I bound everything I made last week in a book, some of the bits of torn edges I saved in a bottle, it just felt right...

The front cover of the Book of Fragments

Opened, all sheets are loosely bound with a suede cord, the smaller pages are tied in a separate packet and tied to the center cord.

a few things

Opened to the first page

Open book with the bottle of fragments

I'm still working on Fragments a little bit, fine tuning, and I have a third one in progress!

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