I'm writing this blog for three graduate classes at Ft. Hays University. One class is a paper over the clay and art of indigenous populations of Texas, one is digging clay where these people lived, and one is with ceremony burying epitaph books of my design. From the request:
Figurative Epitaph books: I would like to create 4 epitaph books out of clay and other media, bind them, then bury them in spaces (with ceremony) three feet deep. The books will be personal and introspective in nature but dealing with a common theme of Man vs. Self. They will all be designed to biodegrade within 8 years, which is my “shelf-life” left in teaching. All aspects of the books will be environmentally safe and permission to bury will be obtained at each location. Documentation (a paper (containing artist statements, reasons, ceremony transcripts and photographs) will be used as assessment.
To start with, you must redefine what a book is. It's a vessel broken up into sections (pages) containing information. Epitaph books will contain life information of life sandwiched within the sections. My books will be figurative, open able, and bound tightly. On the surface they will be decorative. Mechanically they will open and close. They then will be bound tightly and untimely buried.
Today I started making a model of my first one. Problems dealt with cutting the "pages" and dealing with the thickness of the model.
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