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| Stanley Strauss: "This project started with a visit to the Pasadena Rose Bowl monthly Flea Market, where I purchased a bag of wooden spools. I had no idea what I would do with them, but my motto has always been, 'You can make a book out of anything.' So, the challenge was set. Several months later I decided I wanted to do a large sewing project, and when I looked at spools again, Little Dorrit popped into my mind." |
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Little Dorrit: Circumlocution
Text by Charles Dickens
Book design and construction by Stanley Strauss
Claremont, California: Burning Bridges Press, 2010. One-of-a-Kind.
Cylindrical construction 5.75" diameter and 5.75" high ; 716 pages. Digitally printed. Sewing over tapes with cloth-covered boards glued together creating a circular book. Housed in 6.5 x 6.75 x 6.625" cloth-covered box with lipped base. Paper title label inset on side of lid with a needle and thread stuck above.
Stanley Strauss: "Charles Dickens' 1855-57 novel Little Dorrit depicts life in debtors' prison, the effects of the lack of money and the return of fortune, and the absurdity of governmental bureaucracy. The protagonist, Amy Dorrit, works secretly as a seamstress to support her father and herself while living in Marshallsea prison. The novel is divided into two parts: Poverty and Riches.
"Because of his love for Amy, one of the major characters, Arthur Clennam, attempts to restore her family's fortune by seeing information at the Circumlocution Office, where everyone gets the run-around, literally. This version of Poverty (Part the First) is a representation of that Office. The box is designed to be very tight, reflecting the difficulty of entering the bureaucratic world."
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Little Dorrit: Poverty (Part the First) and Riches (Part the Second)
Text by Charles Dickens
Book design by Stanley Strauss
Claremont, California: Burning Bridges Press, 2010. One-of-a-Kind.
Two volumes.
Poverty: 5.875 x 3 x 2.25"; 494 pages. Digitally printed. Bound in cloth-covered boards with sewn binding. Laid in 9.25 x 5.75 x 3.25" construction of cloth-covered boards with an exterior edge of wooden spools and laced thread. Paper title label tipped on exterior.
Riches: 5.875 x 3 x 2.25"; 630 pages. Digitally printed. Bound in cloth-covered boards with sewn binding. Laid in 8.25 x 5.25 x 3.25" construction of cloth-covered boards with wooden cubes and wooden type. Top exterior with marbled paper and paper title label.
Stanley Strauss: "Charles Dickens' 1855-57 novel Little Dorrit depicts life in debtors' prison, the effects of the lack of money and the return of fortune, and the absurdity of governmental bureaucracy. The protagonist, Amy Dorrit, works unbeknownst to her father as a seamstress to support them while living in Marshallsea prison. The novel is divided into two parts: Poverty and Riches.
"The first part of the novel is Amy Dorrit's story, so I used the spools and threads to represent her life in debtors' prison. Rather than make a clamshell box, the spools act as the walls of the case, suggesting that, while her sewing was a way of providing for her family, it was also a prison in itself. Because Amy tried to make her life as pleasant as possible, the colors of the threads used here are brighter and more varied than in Riches (Part the Second)."
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