Holly Litherland: A Perfect Match: Final Piece

For my other final piece i wanted to find a way to display my collection and felt that the mots appropriate way to do this is in a book as that is where you find bookmarks.

I decided to display a 'happy coincidence' connection between a text and a bookmark. After discussions with my tutors about how i was going to do this i decided to scan extracts from relevant books to some of my bookmark collection and print them on tracing paper, this meant i had to cut and paste the pages in photoshop o make sure the pages read in the right order. I then covered each extract with a piece of sugar paper as a way of dividing them and then bound these sections together to create 'a book of books' i then marked each extract with it's corresponding bookmark. I considered stitching the bookmarks to the pages as glue does not react well with tracing paper. However i then realised that this would obscure part of the text. I also considered attaching clear adhesive pockets to the pages to hold the bookmarks but was worried that this would spoil the aesthetics of the book.

I remembered that some books have ribbons fixed to the spine to mark your place. So i have decided to attach the bookmarks to ribbons so they can be moved but remain attached to the book.