{At home.}
On this last day of spring, I arranged a motley menagerie in the glass cabinet that I lay my work across, inspired still by the glorious sights I recall in the temporary exhibition on toys at Les Arts Decoratifs. It may well be over a month ago now, but the visuals still dance before the eyes if I let them. I am now on the long slow search for an elephant such as this or a white mouse such as that or a tiger such as the other.
{They are taking over the museum.}
Here’s to summer days (my friends in the southern hemisphere) and a tomato harvest grand. Whilst the light remains, I am out to the garden. I plan to mulch the garden beds before night closes in.
+ To those of you closer to Paris than me, the exhibition Petites & grosses bêtes closed on the 17th of October.
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Traveller dear,
Louise and I make artists’ books, we make all sorts of things, and most usually we make things on paper. Collaboration comes naturally to us both; it is an enjoyable and wholly inspiring process that yields treasure not possible without the other. Working side-by-side, as we do from our home-based studio in Melbourne, Australia, it is a pattern we are familiar with; a path we are delighted to tread, seeing what new scenario evolves. Collaboration throws up the unexpected, and what is not to like about that?
With paper sufficient to cover the moon and sincerely yours,
Gracia Haby
