Showing posts with label worried bear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label worried bear. Show all posts

Monday, 6 February 2017

The book artist uncovered

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MA book art. Term 2 of 6.

I am beginning to understand what it is I am meant to be doing.

It is very hard to describe, so I have decided to make a book about what it is.

Key facts;

  • Book artists make books about ideas and things that are important to them, such as gender or politics.


  • Most people struggle to understand what the book is about.





  • The book is 'conceptual'.

This basically means that the reader usually has to guess what the book is about and make up their own story.





Book artists choose their materials very carefully, as the story may be hidden in the paper or the thread.

If you think this is a story about a bear talking to three rabbits, then please try again.......






They place a lot of meaning in the layout of the words and images, and like to make reference to previously made books or art-work.


 They publish their books in small quantities and do 'show and tell' in crowded halls around the world.

You get the picture?





I am making a book called "One Day"


It will contain covers of all the books that are currently in my head, but are not suitable topics for someone doing a research project on the horizon and landscape.

Actually, I am sure I could work it so that they are valid, I just haven't quite worked out why yet.




The titles include
  • Street cabinets of the world



 'Worried Bear and Brillo at the beach'





'Barbie in Springtime'





'The Little Book of Really Useful Cones'







'My Colours and Shapes Book'













'Pink is too Pretty'




That's a start.

If you can suggest any more I will be more than willing to consider your ideas. Then I will get extra points for 'collaboration'.

Thank you!


 

Tuesday, 20 September 2016

In which a very worried bear is rescued at Camber Sands


This is worried bear.

I rescued him with a  friend from a charity shop in Rye. He wants to go on adventures and tell stories.

I took him with my family to the beach to play.

He was up for it.









Lifeguards at Camber Sands

He was thinking about safety at the beach and had a good chat to the new lifeguards at Camber Sands.

He sat on a post and looked at the safety signs for the kite surfers.





And then disaster befell him.

He was blown by a puff of wind into a deep dark hole, between the enormous new granite boulders that are the new sea wall.

I couldn't reach him, and nor could my daughter.

Worried bear was worried.

We were worried.

The baby slept as usual.






He lay there for several days until OH ( my other half) came to the rescue

OH is obviously a Blue Peter baby; coat hangers and duct tape to the rescue.




Down into the hole they went





And out came a very relieved and slight fuzzier than before bear.




OH got a Blue Peter badge.




Worried bear ran off to play at Pontins and then went back to the beach to ask the lifeguards why they hadn't been there when he needed them.



There will be no stopping him now.