DOCUMENT:
Chronicles of Project 25:365
The Apocalyptic Lemur
Inspiration courtesy of the daily prompt from Drawn From a Hat on Instagram, which was the words: gem, lemur, dystopian.
(Digital; drawn on my phone)
Zoboomafoo was clearly forced to abandon his more wholesome educational endeavors and go on an amethyst-fueled rampage of epic proportions.
Windows to the Soul
I dislike title pages.
So I generally sketch them in, tell myself I will hone them over time, and then ignore them forever.
The second page is better, but also not great, psychologically speaking. I cut a hole in this one:
And the one after it:
Until I got back down to the envelope:
I don’t feel comfortable with a book until I’m living in the middle of it, settled in its ways. With my journals, I usually make them months before I need them, just so I can get used to them existing.
With the project book (I suspect it wants a name that’s a bit more fulfilling but given that we just met, I have no idea what that name should be, so “project book” will have to do), I’m going to try to force my brain not to follow the rules that apply to my proper journals. Primarily those regarding order, clarity in writing (David Carson would be proud), and revision. I am not a rule-follower by nature; I am whatever makes rule-followers look like lazy, rebellious monsters of chaos.
(As an aside, this is why I fucking suck at being whimsical. Whimsy requires a devil-may-care looseness that pervades the soul. My soul is an iron fist clenched around a scroll of law)
I'm going to do my best with this book to disregard my usual rigidity. Honestly, every time I think about it I come up with rules for how to break my rules. So it’s going to be a struggle.
Texture and Line
(Dye on Hand Embossed Leather)
Happy New Year! Here’s to the beginning of 25:365!
Tiny Envelopes
…of space and time curling in on each other in more dimensions than can be imagined without the human mind stuttering and coming to a halt under the strain….
Or of paper. You know. Like normal envelopes that are in no way harbingers of the uncanny or unsettling. Just stationary.
(Paper and Gouache on Paper)
Self-Control
Is not my strong suit. For the last 5 years I have successfully resisted the urge to knock out smokers on the sidewalk and steal their cigarettes, but put me in the proximity of a baroque idea and I can't resist.
(Partially Tooled Leather; remnants of stencil dye)
This fucking thing was supposed to be a bag flap with a painted dragon on the bottom. Now it’s scales and a tooled dragon.
(In Progress Tooled Leather)
This would all go so much more smoothly if I were any good at it.
Stencil + Pattern
(Stencil Ink on Leather; Pencil on Paper)
I got a messenger bag pattern from Tandy for Christmas last year and then worked on a million other projects instead of putting it together. I'm not doing anything super fancy to it, just adding the dragon design and scales for the front flap. The rest I’ll dye brown.
