Across The Bridge Soup
by telyhardware
On soup, oil, starch, and paste.
Categories: Mastery, My Work • Tags: baking, bindery, book-binding, bookbinding, bread, food, paste, paste making, Wheat paste
Tag: bookbinding
The Only Constant
by telyhardware
I have long been a fan of THE NEW BOOKBINDER, since its first issue with Roger Powell on the cover. The honor of writing a short essay for the journal, aside from being a humbling process of recollection, has garnered me some new friends. Its nearly impossible to sum up large pieces of a lifetime’s work or even to describe the insights, tricks, sudden moves and revelations that one gets from working, talking with other binders, and, of course, following […]
Categories: Biography, My Work, Working & Methods • Tags: art, artist books, book-binding, bookbinding, books, manuscript books, modern art, one of a kind books, Timothy C. Ely
The Codex Offers Unusual Depths to Explore
by telyhardware
I create books in a most common historic form — the Codex. Of course there are many forms which can be bracketed between the earliest gatherings of written material to something written last month. But this is the form which reaches me as a maker. The primeval forms of scrolls and stones and tablets remain venerable and inspiring. They can provide stimulus for so-termed book artists. Yet the codex remains uniquely compelling for me — a fit basis of my […]
Categories: Mastery, My Work, Working & Methods • Tags: artist books, bookbinding, manuscript books, modern art, one of a kind books, Timothy C. Ely
SCORE (cont.): A Walkthrough of My Book Recently Delivered to the Lilly Library at Indiana University
by telyhardware
Last week I posted about my new work, SCORE, delivered to the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Today I wanted to share more images from the book in a bit of a guided tour. At the same time the following descriptions offer insight into the music which accompanies SCORE. What is the work? My primary works, like SCORE, start with a set of unique, one-of-a-kind spreads — in the future I’ll visit the process of creating the folios in more […]
Categories: My Work, News • Tags: artist books, bookbinding, modern art
A Planetary Collage - Timothy C. Ely 