How did I get here?

Some days I feel like I’m on a carousel. Fortunately, when I seek peace I can find it with my wife, photography, gardening, book making and cooking. But it is a different world because of an inability to plan without relative certainty. By this time every year I have an itinerary laid out, reservations made, flights purchased. Maybe next year.

I’ve made some strides in making books. I have some reference material and I have accumulated the tools I need. I’ve made two books and the second is better, thank goodness. Studying the Japanese and Chinese methods of book making is a revelation into human nature. They often get an idea and pursue it to an extreme level of detail much of which is unseen even though it is integral to the strength and beauty of the book. A process learned over centuries.

Of couse a Japanese book opens left to right and the title would be this size but on the left side.

I have ordered some samples of inkjet paper made in Japan in the Awagami Factory. Should be interesting to see how it prints. There is a company in Culver City California, Hiromi Paper, who carry the largest collection of Japanese paper in the US. Cuts the wait time. Next…