SWITCH part 1

About SWITCH

1.

Switch is a double accordeon book.

One folded accordeon binds front & back cover 2gether by glue.

The second is only attached to the front at the other side of the cover but not to the back.

This implies you can add pages to both accordeon folds.

So inside the book you have 2 books with several pages.

You can see them apart, as duos or triptychs even or mix the pages in between.

I owe the concept of this artist book to Lavona Sherarts (USA).

It was one of the many books she showed me how to make during my sabbatical in 1997.

I glued pages of different sizes and shapes in the folds of both accordeons to create a contrast. So pages show you also a glimpse of other pages that follow.

On these pages are asemics made with torn newspapers, pieces of brown envelopes and some greenish paper. On top of that are line drawings in black ink, except on a few that show you only the collaged papers.

This is a bit similar to my second collaboration with John Bennett but on a smaller size.

I am mailing this artist book (1/1) to Cheryl Penn in South Africa as an exchange for her free verse book. Her productivity and creativity in various forms of expression continues to surprise and delight me.

Guido Vermeulen

June 2014