Working from creative text ( Rumi poetry Year Book ) Artist's Book

 Working from creative text ( Rumi poetry Year Book ) Artist's Book?

Project outline

The task was to produce a set, a series, a collection , a related group, an arangement, a sequence or suite of drawing that investigate drawing materials and processes via a narrative. The set or series you develop can relate to each other via imagery, colour, texture, size, materials and techniques. The narrative , the story, the description used to drive your suite of drawings is to be a responsive depiction using poetic devices as opposed to an illustrative explanation.

The options were to

1. Drawing inspiration from either:
   Working from creative text ( Rumi poetry Year Book )
   
   
2. You will develop a suite of works that will either result in a unique
   Artist's Book
   
   

The state library of Queensland, in the artist book education kit describes, an artist's book as an artwork that uses some or all of the characteristics of a book. In creating books, artists are asking that their works be read as well as viewed. They challenge the notion that artworks are things that are framed and hung on walls. Artists also challenge the idea of what a book actually is and invite us to find new meanings for its usual forms and purposes. Typically artists' books of the state library's collection are limited editions. Many however are unique. Their valuable and sometimes fragile nature means that they need to be handled with care