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20 Ways to See Whiteface
My daughter
Corrine use to call it Snow White Mountain and I marveled at her
vision of the world, seen only as a four year old could. I saw
clouds swirl around the mountain, sun sets behind the mountain
and moon glow over the mountain. I came to
So I decided to
draw the images in ink, scan them onto the computer and print them on
an ink jet printer. This is what I did to get the images into
the book. The reproduction quality is excellent and I had them
printed onto Arches Text Wove paper. Since the images
were going to be in black and white I knew this book would be a
good candidate for entry into the juried art show called "Black
and White" at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. I set
myself a deadline to have a copy
Glue is applied to
the iris cloth and a cover board is pressed into it. When both
boards are attached I glue another piece of iris cloth as the hinge
and I attach this to the boards.
The end paper is
glued and the cover is folded over onto it. The book is put
under weight for about 12 hours and then I rip a piece of paper that
was
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Whiteface
Mountain rises up from the valley floor and stands boldly alone.
It can be seen for many miles around with it's ski trails, avalanche
slide marks on the rock and a weaving highway to the top. It so
dominates the other mountains nearby it that ones eye's cannot help
taking it in when it is within view, to see what it looks like at that
moment.
never see the mountain the same way twice and that led me to thinking
about life and the world in general. Why did I also have to see
the world the same way twice, or even somebody that I know?
I
began to fantasize in my sketchbook. I drew boxes and put down
my ideas. How about Whiteface Mountain as part of a bonsai tree
landscape? Or remember that time I saw a plane with it's vapor
trail seeming to rise up right off of Whiteface, and what if you could
slice into the mountain with a giant knife and see what it was made
of?
ready
by then. The book began a year ago
with the actual drawings taking the final six weeks of time. I
was stumped on a cover and I actually had no idea what it was to be
until I began decorating paper. I put myself into a creative
mood and trusted in my instinct. I visualized a time when the
book was finished and I was very pleased with it, I noticed the feel
of the book and the over all feeling inside of me. I began
mixing my own paint using a corn starch
pudding (10 parts water to 1 part corn starch, heated to boiling), I
include Modge Podge (a waterbase sealer, glue), and then acrylic
paints. I paint this mixture onto 80 lb. permalife paper, let it
dry, then stamp and sprinkle white paint on it. 
To
put the book together I rip sheets of the 100% cotton Arches Text Wove
paper into my actual book sheet size. Feed each one through the
printer checking the quality, then fold all thirteen sheets
along with a piece of Japanese paper for the end sheet and a piece of
iris cloth which will attach the signature to the binders boards.
Then with linen thread I sew all those pieces together and create the
signature of this book.
The
paste paint decorated cover is glued and attached then the corners and
edges are folded over.
made by me into a shape reminiscent of the Mountain, this is glued to
the cover and again put under weight for several hours.
"20
Ways to See Whiteface" is a book entirely made by me. From
conception to completion it has been fascinating to see the idea form
and grow, twist and turn. Just as fascinating are my new
perceptions of the world and knowing that I now can view people,
places and things with a new eye that searches out a new way to see.