Finally finished making the Paris travel book, which I started weeks ago. It documents my trip last September to attend the UN NGO conference at UNESCO. I created a number of signatures using postcards distributed at the conference as covers. I also incorporated packing tape transfer, gel lift and matte photo paper transfer techniques I recently learned from Dolores G. The time-consuming part was incorporating the many separate elements into some sort of cohesive whole, especially the photographs I took on the trip. I learned this book's form from Gail R. who taught a traveler book class at SF Center for Books last year. It's cool because the spine is flexible and can be as large as the number of items I want to put into the book. And the signatures help the book stand on its own when all are incorporated. Not the kind of book I would make for all my trips but it works well when one comes home with an inordinate amount of paper and ephemera.
