{Two new yellow zines, There, a moment held and Quadrupeds drawn from London's Natural History Museum collection.}
It gives me great pleasure to announce, Louise and I have two new zines. Inspired by several framed works by Gauguin on yellow paper (his Volpini Suite, eleven zincographs from 1889, of which Dramas of the Sea was my favourite), we selected three different yellow hues for cover, spine and folded page. Three warm gold hues that seem made for season too. The garden is blooming and responding to the rain. The tomato plants show promise, though early days, it is true. The red-flowering bottlebrush is beginning to flower where possums have not reached, a pair of blackbirds forages for worms hidden beneath the layer of mulch, and the air smells of orange blossom.
Louise’s zine features five animals drawn from museum mould. Quadrupeds drawn from London’s Natural History Museum collection is a folded zine, edition size 100, and it includes my favourite okapi at its heart. It features an educated rabbit too, one drawn often by children who visited the museum as a sign they had “actually learnt something” (Museum through a lens: Photographs from 1880 to 1950).
My zine, There, a moment held, features twelve recent postcard collages and various pages of ephemera collected. It is twenty-seven pages in length and an edition of sixty.
{There, a moment held.}
{See more of Louise's beautiful Quadrupeds drawn from London's Natural History Museum collection and my zine here.}
+ Quadrupeds drawn from London's Natural History Museum collection is available here.
+ There, a moment held is available here.
(Photos from nearby oval, not my garden. Then again, that is perhaps obvious.)
