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Pompidou Book with a single signature: This book is a whimsical account of the fountain at the Pompidou Museum in Paris. The initial page asks: Have you ever seen the Pompidou Fountain? In French this translates to: Est-ce que vous avez vue la fountaine de Pompidou? It sounds like a little rhyme. The book covers are lined with repetitive images of one of the fountain figures. I have rarely made books with content, having concentrated more on the form and binding. It is perhaps, the more creative endeavor of the process and links the visual to the written word.

Book Arts by Linda Woodward A Collection of Altered and Hand Bound Books


		The Altered Book Page: This photograph depicts the famous Alice from the Wonderland book. Few know that the charecter was a real child known by the author. This page is a parody of the reality and fictional persona. She peers out at us through a parchment window almost frozen in time and space.


		Embellished Metal Journal: This book is Coptic Bound and embellished with glass beads, The image on the cover is a polymer transfer and adhered with eyelets. The border images are stamped with a polymer and rust lumiere powder.





		Watercolored Collage Cover Bound in German Long Stitch: The inspiration for this book came while I was at Arrowmont in Gatlinburg. The Smokie Mountains and the Trees were alive with color. The materials for the collage are gold leaf and wax paper. It is sometimes interesting to combine two patterns { in this case, leaves and ribbon-like lines } to create an interesting and rythmic effect.





		Origami Folded Book: This book is titled "Pretty Monkey" and discusses the historical symbolism of the monkey in art.





		Leather Journal with Ink Vessel: This book is bound with eyelets and has four signatures. It is embellished with rubber stamps reflecting images from art history.





		Pompidou Book with a single signature: This book is a whimsical account of the fountain at the Pompidou Museum in Paris. The initial page asks: Have you ever seen the Pompidou Fountain? In French this translates to: Est-ce que vous avez vue la fountaine de Pompidou? It sounds like a little rhyme. The book covers are lined with repetitive images of one of the fountain figures. I have rarely made books with content, having concentrated more on the form and binding. It is perhaps, the more creative endeavor of the process and links the visual to the written word.





		Interior Images of the Pompidou Book. These are photographs that I had taken a few years ago. This fountain is quite whimsical and the sculptures whirl and spirt water. The book mark is antique tiny bone dice and venetian glass beads.

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