⊗ two surfaces and an edge

a sunny Autumnal day in Hadleigh

and a visit to HOFS for the

Book Arts Fair

it's not often we get something so

good in my locale!

here are my personal goodies

Keep Out by Miranda Campbell

delicate pages of bark and paper

bound objects and text by Margaret Cooter

she asked visitors to write their names on paper 

and bind them within this ongoing piece

 photographic images, text and written words 

on canvas squares by Triss Norman

the disjointed calendar of mixed feeling

Bunty by Karen Apps

I love Karen's work and how she twangs the

strings of motherhood, attachment and memory

Haptophobia

glass and text 

imprisoned with a box

there was so much to adore and admire

on Sally Chinea's table

her delicately stitched works have a dark side

within the brown paper wrap 

the pattern to stitch your very own

silk grenade

Al Mutanabbi Street Remembered

by Gwen Simpson

Smell the Coffee 

tensile strength of everyday objects

culled books from her partners bookcases

by Jane Woollatt

the covers stripped and red ink dipped

violence and remembrance 

The True Edge of Creation

by Chris Ruston

these vibrant raging pages

soaked in good inks 

layered strata

flickering in the November light

something unexpected conjured from the mundane

constructed deconstructed

bringing new responses

wonder disgust intrigue