Not exactly what I started with, but where it ended. Spinning top and discs demonstrating optical illusions. One is from a set designed by Marcel Duchamp. Write-up, including printable file, in next Sunday's Byopia Press blog post.
'Language Barrier' 2013 Entire text of the Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases rolled into beads and sewn into a tube, nylon rope, made-to-order acrylic stanchions, nuts and bolts. Approx. 38,000 beads / 22 meters (72 feet) long.
For #ThrowbackThursday, here's part of my installation 'You Can't See The Forest' from my solo show 'Word View' at the Saskatchewan Craft Council Gallery in 2013. I made 765 leaves out of a discarded copy of Webster's New Students Dictionary.
Ready to glue on the covers. The free printable file and instructions for assembling the book will be available on the Byopia Press blog on Sunday, October 12, 2025.
