On My Way

Last week I found myself with a couple of free hours on Queen West. I was sent home early from my first job, at the café but still had to go in to my second job at the mall. With time to kill, but not enough time to go home I popped into one of my favourite Toronto stores - The Paper Place - and picked up a few things. I then camped out at Second Cup and made a few small pieces using the letterpressed recipe cards and paper dots I picked up (beautifully made by Drop Around letterpress). These pieces are going to be a direct inspiration for the larger, two dimensional pieces on paper I plan on starting for the independent study.


Two shots of the paper dots and washi tape I picked up last week.


And an idea for my second book project. My first series of books is still in progress, but I'm thinking of ideas for the second one. For Christmas I bought someone a set of 45's that came in this great box. Each record is stacked in its own crisp sleeve and tucked into a neat square box. I've seen artist books presents as loose pages in a box before, and I like the idea. Aesthetic and conceptual planning aside, I have a feeling that this is how I'll be presenting my second book.

The next step is, of course, to submit my project to galleries to show all of this work together. The nice thing about graduating art school is that you end up with friends who work at galleries and art magazines. I'll be sending proposals within the next few days.