Hand Made Books & Other Things

Just some of the hand made books that I have made

For almost every show that I have had, I have created a companion handmade book work. Often in collaboration with my partner Sue Bracken. The design, the digital processing, printing, collating and binding all done by yours truly.

All kinds of formats: conventional, flip, accordion, boxed anthologies - even a game. My intent is to provide my often honking big drawings at a scale that is more accessible and affordable. Something that you could take home. Here is a peek at some them.

Above, Below & In Between

Boxed set of images. Box is museum storage quality. 9.5" x 11" x 3".

Above Below & In Between, 2021

This is definitely a "ONE-OF". So much time, love, blood, and sweat was poured into its creation. I won't be making any more in this format.

60 close-up images bound in pairs so you that you pick them up and really get close! Here, I am only showing you a sample of imagery from each section.

You can also enjoy a digital book version by going to
https://www.flipsnack.com/mcclymentbookprojects/above-below-and-in-between.html

A pair of images from "Above"

Once past my written introduction, there are no more words. Pairing the images definitely suggests a story. But I have left that up to you.

A pair of images from "Above"

A Pair of images from In Between

A Pair of Images from Below

The Girl in the Park as an accordian book / 3D object.

I have digitally processed and recontextualizes the original larger drawings. AND overlaid that with the poetry by Sue Bracken that was the original prompt.

The Girl in the Park, compiled, 2020

This is a one-of hand made book work / 3D object. 13" x 13" x (as far as you want to stretch it). A collaboration with Sue Bracken who provided the inspiration and the text. I have digitally processed and recontextualized the larger drawings from the Girl In the Park (see New Projects: Consider This)

The Girl In the Park, compiled, detail 1

One side of this book/object is presented "positively".

The Girl In the Park, compiled, detail 2

The other side is inverted.

Xcess & Ohhs. 2020. A handmade book which digitially recontextualized the imagery with the poerty which it prompted by Sue Bracken. Each page has been hand mounted and then lovingly abused. 5.5 " x 11". 29 pages.

Xcess & Ohhs, 2020

A hand made book in an edition of 10. 8.5" x 11. 25 pages. A collaboration between myself - digitally processing and recontextualizing the original imagery - and Sue Bracken who used the imager as prompts for corresponding poems

Xxess and Ohhs

Xcess & Ohhs, detail "I'm Ok, You're Ok"

Showing image

Xcess & Ohhs, detail

Showing corresponding poem.

A Simple Story About An Old Guy Who Wishes On Luck. 2018. A hand made book that riffs on two series of larger drawings. One that tells the story of an old guy who bends over to pick up a wallet, narrowly being missed by a flying pie. The other combines a series of hand gestures. Sue tells me that I am NOT the old guy. I am not so sure.

A Simple Story, cover

7 in x 10 in. 24 pages

A Simple Story...sample double page spread

Each page is hand mounted and then lovingly abused by yours truly!

A Simple Story...sample double page spread

Attraction, 2015. A small handmade accordian book. A limited edition of ten, Imagery by me, with poetry by Sue Bracken. It brings together two sets of much larger drawings. One set of the phases of the moon. The other of elephants swimming. To my mind the connection is the seeming paradox of immense bodies "floating".

Attraction, expanded showing the image side

Two sided. Each "page" 4.5" x 6". Counting both sides, 28 pages.

Attraction detail of image side

Attraction detail of poetry side.

Smudge. The Portfolio Anthology. 2018. Limited edition of 3. Digitally processed and rescaled imagery from the show of the same name. Fourteen images printed on premium quality paper and presented in a museum quality archive box. Each image 13" x 19". Suitable for framing.

Smudge Archival Box

Smudge, a glimpse of some of the imagery

Fourteen hand printed and collaged images in an archival / museum quality box. Click on the link to see all the original imagery.

7 Crows. Limited Edition Hand Made Book. 2012. Edition of 10. Based on the orginal imagery presented in my exhibition "I Was Dreaming I Was A Crow Dreaming". It plays with the childrens school yard rhyme:

"one crow for sorros, two for joy, three for a girl, one for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told"

7 Crows

15 pages. 5.5" x 8.5". Each page hand mounted. Part of the inspiration for One for Sorrow, the collaborative VR project I am working on with artist Dr. Lynne Heller

7 Crows. sample two page spread

Dreamin I Was A Crow Dreaming, 2012. An hand made anthology of digitally rescaled imagery from the show of the same name. Limited edition of ten. The orginal drawings are in the range of 5 ft x 15 ft. This anthology presents them in a smaller more accessible size: 13 inches x 19 inches.

Dreaming I Was A Crow Dreaming, cover page

The anthology is contained within an archival, hand made envelope.

Dreaming I Was A Crow Dreaming sample page

"This Time Its Personal". Printed on premium archival paper, bound by Chicago posts so each image could be easily removed and framed.

Imagine A Different Colour Here, 2010. Two hand made versions. Each a limited edition of 35. A paradoy of formal colour theory as conventionally taught at the post secondary level (which I don't have much use for). One plays with imagery from Future Past Perfect. White Background. The other is based on imagery from Teacher Knows Best (originally installed as part of Art School Dismissed (curated by Heather Nicol).