Week 5 - #1

This week I started playing around with the layout of the manuscript I’m going to make for one of the elements of my ethnographic art instillation. I typeset and pasted in the story of Thomas Rhymer and the fairy queen and started playing with the layout. After formatting the text, I planned out what I’m going to illustrate in all of the areas that are now black boxes. I arranged the lettering in a way that previewed what I’m going to do but I will also be drawing in the illustrated letters for the head of each paragraph.

At this point I used a Celtic manuscript font for the body text just for layout purposes, but I am looking into designing my own font.

Originally, I was going to make this a covered book but since there are so few pages, I decided instead to hang the pages on the wall inside frames on the wall of my exhibition. I believe this will be better for viewing and also it will be easier for multiple viewings at a time whereas a book would only service one person flipping through it.