Tree Book Tree: a Plantable Book
The Sunday Paper #68
Paper of the Week: Envelope Paper
I enjoy taking ordinary (or not so ordinary) objects and reimagining them. I sincerely hope that letter writing will have a comeback – my BFF from childhood and I have started writing letters again – but in the meantime envelopes are fun to work with because they come in a variety of colors and sizes and other papers can easily be slipped into the pockets. This envelope folding screen (from my book Playing With Paper) has a hinge that tucks into the pockets. Cut out patterns reminiscent of stained glass, slip decorative papers inside (asanoha, a Japanese lace paper, is featured here), and set the screen in a spot where it can catch some light. Check out my pinterest board for more envelope ideas.
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In the Studio:
I’m developing a web page dedicated to the papers that I feature each week in The Sunday Paper. Check out The Paper Library, a growing resource for paper lovers.
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Megan Singleton is a practicing artist and educator based in St. Louis, Missouri. Her recent installation is a body of work reflecting her experience navigating and researching the costal landscape, aquaculture, and aquatic plant ecology of Eastport, ME and the Passamaquoddy Bay while Artist in Residence at the Tides Museum Studio Works Program.
Megan Singleton, Interchange, an Average of Eighteen, 2015, Abaca & Wire, Dimensions variable (18 feet in length)
What a lovely book and message: Tree Book Tree is a plantable book by Pequeno Editor, a children’s book publisher in Argentina. The book demonstrates how paper products can impact the environment – literally. Its pages are made from handmade paper, it is printed with ecological ink, and jacaranda seeds are attached to the pages which are designed to sprout when the book is planted. Bookstores around Argentina are displaying planted copies of Mi Papá Estuvo en la Selva and they are germinating in store windows.
And check out this other seed project: Seeds InService: A Papermaking Institute is an initiative of Melissa Potter and Maggie Puckett to explore the intersections of the art of hand papermaking with gardening, social practice, community engagement, and creative pedagogy in The Papermaker’s Garden at Columbia College Chicago. These Seeds SEEDS INSERVICE 2014 Limited Edition Seed Packets are available here.
Check out the Fantastic Four, er I mean folds. DC Super Heroes Origami will be available soon featuring your favorite super heroes.
Paper for Water: this is a super sweet story about two entrepreneur-sisters who have raised $650,000 for water wells through origami.
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