Breaking Waves

Bound: 2023
Binding: case bound with a paper layered hardcover

I made this book for the exhibition 'Making Waves' at the Upright Gallery in Edinburgh curated by graphic designer Ian Farmer.

It represents the stillness as well as the movement of water. When closed it's one simple curved book block, showing every shade of blue. But when you open it, the multilayered book cover also 'opens up' and forms a waving landscape. The transparency and always changing character of water translates to an outer layer of dyed, translucent tracing paper.

The book is was sold to and reviewed by 'books on books' curated by Robert Bolick.