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Eastern repousse front cover of a one of a kind, long stitch book with calligraphic hand lettering over a printed digital montage of original collages, and an acid etched copper back cover
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The copper front cover portrait is of my son, Skyler. I snuck the photograph on which it's based when he was 11-1/2 in 2011while he was gazing out the ferry window on a trip up Puget Sound. I first drew the portrait with Prismacolor pencils on goatskin vellum. Before it was complete I knew that I also needed to hammer it in metal, and that instead of being a framed piece, it needed to be something rather more intimate.
Skyler had recently become a Shakespeare fan (no one does bawdy humor like The Bard), so I began researching passages that would fit my perspective of his thoughts and dreams as he stood on the edge of childhood, looking toward his teens. My husband and I joked that Hamlet (my personal favorite) was too obvious, and The Tempest was tempting, but when I found Theseus' speech from Midsummer Nights Dream, I knew it was perfect even if I did rip it out of context just a bit.
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