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title: Soil and Water Tammy Wofsey
description: A visual diary. This is my thought process for creation of my artist book from start to finish.
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• <H1> Soil and Water Tammy Wofsey
• <H2> About Soil and Water an artist book a sound story
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• <H5> Soil and Water an artist book begun the week of Hurricane Sandy.  It was completed in the fall of 2015 this was the year commemorating the United Nations International Year of Soils. Presented,  is a seed growing to an  idea and germinating to the completion of my artist book project.
• <H4> Paper, paper how shall I begin?
• <H3> Will my idea for this artist book live up to my investment in this paper?
• <H4> I am using a tear bar to rip my paper (Revies de Lin)  to the correct size . This is the painful part.
• <H3> A thought cloud
• <H3> Turned to an idea cloud.
• <H4> My first page printed. This was going to be the title page.
• <H4> When I look down at my feet what do I see dirt!
• <H4> This accidentally printed on two sheets of paper and  was the inspiration for the flap on the second page of the book.
• <H4> I wanted to use the word Be and Beat as an  indication for being in a place of time, the beating of bird feather wings and the beat in music.
• <H4> I had an opportunity to travel to Slovakia and I was given these beautiful hand made feathers from a friend.
• <H4> They are used for baking. The feathers are collected and sewn together and used for brushing egg on baking sheets and pastries. My inspiration.
• <H3> It can be challenging to stay quiet to wait for the silence to reveal sound.
• <H4> I had a vague idea of creating the visual sound of  quiet a space for the reader to rest.
• <H4> How can I print a  place of solitude for my  reader? This was my challenge. I began by turning everything off. To work in a quiet environment.
• <H4> To get to the place where you are standing in time. You look at the clock and the sun has set.
• <H5> Olympic National Park has place you can hike to that is one of the quietest spots on earth. One Square Inch of Silence is a movement created by Gordon Hempton.  http://onesquareinch.org
• <H5> Cadillac Dessert by Marc Reisner was a big influence for myself. I read it for the first time as a teenager growing up in Colorado. The book gave pause for the everyday things I would notice such as  brown scrubby prairie grass next to a perfectly green golf course grass
• <H5> Reisner begins with the history of dams and its creation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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• <H4> Soil is gold. A non-renewable resource that can take hundreds to thousands of years for one centimeter of soil to be created.
• <H4> This page was not making a splash and the initial image.
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• <H4> How can I make this page read splash? I will start by cutting out paper to see what I can change.
• <H3> I will print white on top to cover over the original image.
• <H3> I want to leave some of the initial print to show through the printed layers.
• <H4> Now for the wave that will turn into a feather! I will need lots of practice before I print on the good paper.
• <H3> I want this page to have the movement of how water sounds when hits a solid surface to draw out a splasssssssssssh.
• <H4> How can I make the certain synergy the wavy bits of sound that happen right before a lightning bolt hits the ground?
• <H6> About half way through making this artist book  I wanted to make a quick cut with the linoleum to use for my next page. The blade on the mat cutting knife was longer than usual. I must have been tired I’m still not sure what happened next. I looked down at my thumb and saw white. 
• <H6> I knew it was not just a band aid patch up. I didn’t want to look I grabbed a towel tried to knit the skin together and then? Think! I grabbed my keys and insurance card.  I head over to Lincoln Hospital it is a few blocks away I tried to stay calm.  
• <H6> I walk through the emergency doors. I am pressing the towel against my cut while I  stand behind a tall high school looking type student. He is having a hard time describing his symptoms because he is gasping for air. An asthma attack the attendant is typing.
• <H6> Once I give my information I wait my turn. Getting towards midnight two more people from my neighborhood appear having difficulty breathing. this is what asthma sounds like. I know it when I hear it. It all rushes back to me. My brother and mom are asthmatics. I get transferred to a room and wait one, two, then three A.M. the doctor arrives with an apology there was a patient who needed to be intubated.
• <H6>  A bunch of stitches and a wrapped up thumb I go home. The next day I go to a hand surgeon and find out I have a severed tendon I will need surgery the next day. My first thought is relief for having health insurance.  
• <H5> Have I learned anything from this awful experience? Yes! All of you artist reading this listen up!
• <H5> Clap down everything you plan to cut. You are holding a knife be present. Your hand should not be holding down the ruler.
• <H5> Go to sleep if your exhausted you can work tomorrow.
• <H6> You can read something and become informed and learn through a direct experience. The Bronx has the highest rate of asthma in the United States. This statistic became real when I went to the hospital and saw my neighbors gasping for air. How is this fair? People living in a poor neighborhood that is a majority of minorities should not have asthma any more than anyone else.
• <H6> Every neighborhood has the right to clean air. I made this real connection to our protests and not having Fresh Direct move to our neighborhood.  This would bring even more trucks and pollution to our community.  I know how it feels to see someone you love grab fists full of air, asthma is terrifying. This encounter found its way into my book through it’s own volition. I did not make a plan for this to be part of my artist book but there it was talking to me.
• <H4> I read this book The Worst Hard Time while in the process of printing Soil and Water. The title does not do justice to the horrors Timothy Egan unfolds in this heartbroken story of the prairie, grassland and the beautiful soil that turns to dust.
• <H4> I must wipe off all of the extra ink in so it does not print.
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• <H3> Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
• <H3> by Mark Tawain
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• <H5> I used Japanese Gampi paper for the sound that is made before the lightning bolt hits ground.
• <H4> I choose two different thicknesses of Gampi paper for creating the crackle sound before the crash.
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• <H4> The rainbow roll my original idea for the title page.
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• <H5> When I began this project I printed the image for the title page with the intention of printing the title in browns to represent soil and blue for water. I thought this would work however it was two years ago when finally got back to my first page. My imagination and inspiration was in a different place from when I had printed this page.
• <H4> Sleep I will sleep and try to find a solution?
• <H4> I tried to think of  ways to change the title page. Maybe print another layer on top of the image it was a solution for the splash page?  It was all wrong this first page needed to begin strong in blacks and browns. I needed the reader to feel water but not with color. I want the waves to  travel to the next page and  bring the reader with me. I will start fresh!  The most painful part is buying more paper.
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• <H4> I am hand cutting out all the waves with a knife then printing on the inked surface of the plate to get my waves. I want this to be a mirror image.
• <H4> Have you ever heard the old saying mind your P s and Q s? This is where this saying comes from because type is set backwards and printed forwards. A p looks like q and d looks like b it requires patience.
• <H4> I’m getting to the finish line! Close I will begin to collate all of the pages for my book.
• <H4> This the daunting part of my project making the portfolio box for my book. This turned out to be way more labor intensive than I thought. I began with making several mock boxes to visualize how the box will fit. First I used cardboard scraps and tape to get an idea of how I would construct the flaps for the portfolio. I made an improved box from leftover book cloth and boards. This helped with confidence and  to practice before I use the expensive materials.
• <H4> All of the book boards need to be cut to the correct size using a book board sheer.
• <H4> This is the Cave paper used to for the portfolio box. I wanted the color and paper to feel like the soil. This paper is so strong that it’s hard to tear. I imagine elephant skin while gluing this down.
• <H4> This is my phone book collection I use it for weighting down the paper while it drys to the book board.
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• <H4> It is almost done I have the window ready for jig sawing together the linoleum for the top of the portfolio box.
• <H4> I love the color of this green linoleum it feels like wet moss.
• <H5> The Lessons I have learned for my next artist book. Don’t be cheep with expensive paper it will cost you tons of time in the end.  I will make mistakes. Pages will be printed upside down, backwards, scrunched up, or just plain wrong.
• <H5> I need to have extra pages printed outside of my chosen edition for the unexpected and unforeseen. My edition for this book is seven I needed to print an extra five pages for each page.
• <H5> Process, the most enjoyable moments in life relate to process.  Printing is a process and  this was how I accumulated knowledge along the way. Print a page and see if it challenges my initial idea. I turn each page and wait for the silence to take hold. When the lightening from a storm strikes I ask myself , how can I recreate this sound? I smell the rain before a storm and it is a reminder of the soil,  the earth worms that will emerge.  My process for creating this book was nonlinear. I started from the title page had a notion of what might happen. Through mistakes, trial errors and cul-de-sacs I worked out my sound story.  When asked what I was working on I would say a book about dirt and in reality I could not answer this question.  I wanted  my  reader to experience a heart beating, wing flapping , a place for remembering sight sound and touch.  I had an idea but not yet a way to express this. 
• <H6> This all started with a simple notion of needing but not wanting to through out my used up linoleum. I began to recycle and reuse the plates that did not work out. This artist book started from the print shown below. I used a lot of linoleum creating this print because it’s floor to ceiling large. I hated to trash expensive material. I started cutting it up taping parts of it together and reusing big and little scraps. Soil and Water  is born.
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