Wild Bones starts with finding the right outer paper shell. I'm only limited to the collected papers that are in my apartment, and half of them date back to...around 1996. Some were taken from the trash at my old printing job-end cuts; press tests and printing mistakes. Some belong to a whimsical series of hand lettering I did testing cover ideas for a friend's book cover. Some are watercolor tests from when I thought the cover was going to be a comic-book-looking cover. Some are wallpaper.
I then cut each to size, fold by hand, and stack. Next is the sewing part. I straight-stitch up each side with my machine. I just learned to sew this year!! Lots more to learn.
The cover and insert have already been printed at this point. I still need to adhere the cover on though. After I do that, I'll insert the inserts as I wait for the discs to come back from the place. Then numbering.
But man, the prototypes are rad. So after I do all that paper stuff, I insert each into a plastic bag. Then, I throw in the fun stuff: sharks' teeth, all pieces of thread from the previous sewing, dried flowers, glitter, more ephemera and love. They all land where they want to and the thread gives more bones to the bones.
Here is a finished one!
Process:
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