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Issue 2 of Ink & Ruminations, “Black & White”, was published March 21, 2003!  It includes expanded text of the sample articles below as well as instructions and illustrations for making  pocket-page books, a discussion of soft rubber carving with tips & illustrations, an article on Faux Postage with samples, an introduction to the technique of Bobbin Drawing and a great artist's interview with Randel Plowman, printmaker, with examples of his work.  It is a high-quality printing I feel quite confident you'll enjoy!
 

My inquiry into the familiar idea of creating art from trash is the Throw-Away Collage-a-Day Journal. I bound a Coptic-stitched 8” x 10” blank book in early December, 2002, with no specific goal beyond the making. While working on Issue I of Ink & Ruminations, I needed a readily-available, easily-folded paper for making mini passport books. I used what would have been a discarded Christmas catalog and found I liked the colorful pages, and their specific meaning was transformed by the folding. An additional impetus was an awareness of gathering and disposing:  I was busy collecting appealing or potentially "artistic" bits of ephemera for collage and concurrently trashing pounds and pounds of junk mail that arrived daily.  Could something artistic arise from the conjunction of these two, the thoughtful pausing of this cycle?

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