Notes / Notebook

A half-filled notebook.

I decided to go back to the manual arts, and started to bind notebooks. I learned it at the conservation study and never used it since then. Now suddenly I found a pleasere in just sitting and sawing the papers, bindig it, making the cover... So I decided to create 16 small notebooks, that I gave away to different people. The people that were important to me last year - some of them appeared there as ideas, some, because we are close. I want to share the manual world with them.
In the same time I'm interested in the process of using up - how do the things become personal, and how do they use up. I would like people to carry it around for a year, and then take a photo of it and give away to me two pages from inside - the pages they will choose. In this way at the end of the year I'll have a collection of 32 pages that I will bind in a new notebook - I will also include some blank pages in it. In the perfect situation i'll have money at that time to print it out - a half used notebook.

Participants: Michael Ackerman, Karolina Bogdanowicz, Robert Curgenven, Marcin Dymiter, Emil, Magdalena, Radoslawa Franczak, Piotr Emanuel Kraus, Ernö Niżalowski, András Nun, Daniel Odija, Alice Østerbøg, Denis Stalmakov, Attila Stark, Janusz Turkowski, Pawel Zylinski.

Edition of 500, 192p. (64p. filled, 128p. empty), hard cover in linnen, 2011