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| Green morocco with red and yellow overlays |
Be Leaf
June 11th, 02000 to March 19th, 02001 Oh this poor journal! Just before I left on my trip to Bookbinding 2000, I realized
I'd need a new journal. So, yet again, I quickly bound another one, popped it under the cooler in my car to be pressed and
took off. Two days later when I got to Atlanta, I discovered that my cooler had leaked all over it, soaking the boards and
severely warping it. I put together a book press out of 'C' clamps and melamine boards but it was too late.
My life got kind of warped at this point, too. After Rochester, I drove to Phoenicia to spend a week with my Aunt Anne.
There I got bit by a tick carrying Lyme disease. When I got back to Austin I was put on a regimen of antibiotics, which took
care of it. Two days after finishing the antibiotics, I basically fell off my roof, landed on my feet and shattered my left
leg. I got a bone graft and steel plate and spent over two months recovering. Then in December, while running the tree lot
for the Austin Optimist Club, my appendix ruptured. Did I go to the hospital? No, of course not. I waited three days until
I had peritonitis and other problems and then went to the doctors. She had me driven to the emergency room.
So I had a lot of time on my hands to write in my journals. I actually wrote in the journal while in the emergency room
waiting to go into surgery for the leg. Morphine definitely affects my handwriting... And thinking...
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Crescent Star Orient
March 22nd, 02001 to January 19th, 02002 My first concave spine journal, a structure I first saw at Bookbinding 2000 in a
demonstration by James Brockman. My spine is flexible and his is rigid, but these are cool because there's no gutter.
In October I became self-employed, still working at the same place, but for myself, an ever-rocky, evolving thing.
| Crescent Star Orient |
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| Navy blue calf with morocco, calf & metal inlays |
| Journal pages, Crescent Star Orient |
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| Pen & ink, magazine photo |
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