Okay, just decided to do another test of the new Blurb Color Trade book. This project is ongoing, and I’ve actually done a book of this material before, but I was not happy at all with my choices on the first book. So, I started over. I spent more time with the work, asked myself how it felt and how I thought it should be represented. What I came up with is what you see below. The footprint is far smaller, from 12×12 to 6×9. The images went from cold-tone to warm-tone and the the front matter and back matter changed and simplified. This work is important to me because it represents a new direction. As for the success of the images, well, there are some I like very much and others that don’t perhaps work as well, which means this body of work is the same as all my others. But what is important for me about this, other than the fact I made the images at home, is that this work has me THINKING in new ways. And fair warning…if you think THIS work is departure for me…just wait. I’ve got two new bodies of work that are really a stretch.
