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The Futility of Circular Motion

Designed and bound by Eric Alstrom
1999

A book created at PBI 1999 at Haystack, Deer Isle, Maine. The binding is a "bucknaked" sewnboards binding, based on a historic Ethiopian structure. I learned this binding in a class taught by Cecilia Frost at PBI. I teach this binding in workshops. For more information, see the Workshops page.

The book is in an edition of three. The title comes from the fact that all the circles (one in each page) were cut in the backwoods of Maine using an X-acto blade taped to dividers. It wasn't until PBI 2000 that I discovered the Olfa circle cutter tool.)

Futility of Circular Motion

Front cover.

Interior shot showing the circles cut out of the pages, which were colored with many layers of acrylic washes.

Another interior shot.

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