Working from the knowledge of historical buildings, Hedi Kyle creates book forms that explore binding and foldings inspired by Kyles time as a historical book conservator. she explores how a book can be manipulated, folded and designed is a way that allows for new binding exploration and idea generation can create new structures. she is quite an important figure within artist books as she has developed a series of new structures.
I am interested in Kyles use of cut outs and light in the books above. This has given me inspiration to consider how I would best trap the elderly man within the book form. My ideas are to darken the areas surrounding the man to create the feeling of being overwhelmed within his own thoughts and negative space as a result of being exposed to the COVID 19 pandemic. This week I am going to continue to explore this theme through dry point printing and letterpress, and then folding and binding them into a book form. I am still unsure of the structure the book will take but this is something I will need to explore through mock ups as the material choice will be dependent on which structure I will use. Looking Forward to my final major I want to continue to explore these materials and processes with the intention of making artist book exploring these through alternative themes.
Lara Hoad Artist Designer: Maker 