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Own goal: The Pillowbooks

Sometimes I feel like thinking about old work, the work that hasn't made it onto my current website .* So occasionally I'm going to revisit things as a little series I'm calling Own Goal . What follows is from 2009, edited from the original in my first &Duck blog.  The Pillowbooks is a two-object artist's book comprising a complementary pair of concertina folds. It was made for my exhibition Pressings: Recycled Bookwork (Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, 2009 ) , and sat so quietly in the show that I don't think many people noticed it. The rationale for this exhibition was that the works in it were made from the remnants of other work; I used altered commercial books alongside pieces created from larger/more formal book projects that I'd worked on over the years. When I produced  Transmigration , a fine press book of poems by Nan McDonald with drawings by Jan Brown, I printed the edition on paper called BFK Rives Grey, which is a lovely eucalypt grey-green col