{"id":10574,"date":"2021-06-13T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=10574"},"modified":"2022-09-16T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T20:44:03","slug":"content-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/content-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I did some assessment of the new techniques I&#8217;ve been exploring to develop interesting pages for my handmade books. I have quite a collection forming, which is gratifying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realized that I don&#8217;t want to bind my stacks of experiments because they are too diverse and don&#8217;t tell a cohesive story (except that I&#8217;m experimenting). But I could do more with them. Maybe add more layers. Or choose a favorite and make similar pages to go in a coherent book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From top left: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Stack of watercolor monotype experiments<\/li><li>Asemic writing with fine line applicator folded into an accordion<\/li><li>Stack of Arches Text Wove experiments treated with matte medium and methyl cellulose mixture plus color, as taught by Suzanne Moore<\/li><li>Three sets of folded single page booklets decorated with gesso, acrylic, collage, cyanotype. I will bind these together. <\/li><li>Reusable cover for tall concertina sketchbook. Bookcloth made from ecoprint using eucalyptus. Not quite finished. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_2920.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_2920.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_2920-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did some assessment of the new techniques I&#8217;ve been exploring to develop interesting pages for my handmade books. I have quite a collection forming, which is gratifying. I realized that I don&#8217;t want&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-paper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11815,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574\/revisions\/11815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}