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Yesterday evening, Spokane Public Broadcasting aired a 15 minute segment on my work. I’m pleased with the time and care they put into the finished piece and thought I’d share it. The entire episode is on YouTube. You will find my section starting at 14:33. Thanks to the folks at KSPS for their interest and care. Hope you enjoy! ©2021 — Timothy C. Ely — All Rights Reserved
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When I started making books in the 1970s, there was no clear roadmap for what I wanted to make. Now Doug Garnett and Sam Q. Garnett have created a short documentary on my work and many of the processes I use — including a full tour of my book Line of Sight. Enjoy! And pass it along! To share, here’s the link to the video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/protonik/timothyelylineofsight And here’s the link to the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdqPEZy8Sc&feature=youtu.be Special thanks to […]
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Blogging co-conspirator Doug Garnett has collected a set of writings about my work onto a page added to this blog. So I thought my regular readers might find these writings of interest. After all, I’ve spent my career creating books which deliver an experience of mystery and delight — attempting to create an artifact which delivers the surprise one might feel encountering an unusual and compelling work hidden within a rare book collection. The work which developed turns out to […]
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While in England on my NEA grant, I met Philip Smith – an encounter that spun into a lifelong friendship. Most bookbinding texts focus on journeyman work – the skills needed to begin the process and to contemplate mends, repairs and the conservation of rare works. During my self-propelled apprenticeship I found many books covering these issues in binding – key issues where I was intrigued. Through them I learned a tremendous amount about the raw fundamentals and first principals. […]
Categories: Biography
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By the early 1980s, I could clearly envision the kinds of books of images that I wanted to make. Now it was time for serious ratcheting up of my skills at making books – so that their quality matched my own demanding vision of it. Artist stories often omit this part – after all skilled making of things is somehow not “intellectual” enough in today’s world. Yet success as an artist requires skills to bring what we see into reality and […]
Categories: Biography
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The mere act of seeking often leads to answers in surprising places. I was looking hard after leaving grad school – following the idea of making one-of-a-kind books that contained my images. I had made a few visual books, in essence small board books with all the wrong machine directions and improper adhesives. What I sensed was that the entire process of book making, its scale and the meshing of all sorts of materials and disciplines was an extraordinary place […]
Categories: Biography
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In the last part of the twentieth century, I was awarded a degree, an MFA. It was a most odd thing to me to be a ‘master’ of a fine art, especially at 25 or so years of age. In the great lens of hindsight, I recall the congratulatory remarks of my committee that were at odds with my own deeply buried feeling – for I never felt less masterful, less prepared or remotely qualified for the thing which was […]
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A Planetary Collage - Timothy C. Ely