Book Art Project

In the first quarter of the school year we were assigned to make a book art project. This book art idea came from Isaac Salazar, the person who created book art. The process of making the art is to fold each page of the book into the shape or word you want. Because this project is supposed to be apart of visual literacy, we were to come up of a two to four letter word. My word was " pray."We printed paper with the word on it and had lines on it to show where we had to fold the paper to and the shape of the fold we were to do. Every time we created a fold we had to mark where we left off so that we don't skip or redo a line. When we first started it became a little confusing but after a while I got used to it. 

For my book, I had to fold sixty-four pages for "p,"  thirty-five pages for "r," sixty pages for "a," and forty-eight pages for "y," but to finish the entire word in the book, I had to fold two hundred and seven pages. I chose this word because if I keep this book, I can remember to always pray and talk to god everyday. The font of my word, carter one, relates to my word because the font looks kind of inspirational, so I chose it. My intent of the project was to inspire, move, and to motivate others especially myself.

When I finished my book art project, I thought it came out pretty good. I liked it, it was pretty ok. I think the only thing I would do differently is to choose a different word so that I could be more challenged, with the word that I already had, it was a little to easy. If I were to do this project again, I think the word that I would like to do would either be " dance," or a word that has more than five letters. The book that I would create the word in would be like a dancing book with cool moves or any book that has to do and relate with the word I will be using. Doing this project was really fun and I would recommend it to all art classes or for free time project at home or even at school.

Below is my finished book art project and the process of creating my word!