thethirdbarnbooks

16 Days, 2011

2011-07-15T12:28:00.000-07:00

Selections from a visual log
of 2 weeks spent in Otranto, Italy

from July 15-July 30, 2011

on an artist residence
sponsored by the Bau Institute

book box top view, open view and side view
selected individual pages shown below:

Book Safe: Academic Year 2010-2011

2011-05-10T14:04:00.000-07:00

Memory Safe: Academic Year 2010-2011

the year before my year-long sabbatical

senior year at Bennington for Rachel

the year of a spring sabbatical for Scott

List of Work:

1. Ending summer with champagne cocktails

2. Academic smock

3. Silent steam...SBSBSBSB

4. Gold cravings like dark chocolate

5. Word, project 1

6. All sitting around a well-polished table

7. Katonah

8. Plucked Fruit

9. The Cod

10. Cornfields

11. U & I

12. Studio Furnace

13. Letter Writing

14. 10.10.10

15. June 3, 1990, wedding day

16. Butterflies lost and found

17. X: The Red Book

18. Sierra Alta Zebra

19. Home for the Holidays

20. Cigar Box Paintings

21. Sabbatical Apps

22. Hanukkah by mail

23. for Mary

24. 17th Floor dining at the Lab

25. Dinner Parties in NY and PA

26. Michters & Popcorn

27. Met Tags

28. Winter Solstice party

29. 706, 18 months exactly

30. Tweed for Bruce

31. New Glasses

32. Raspberries & Carrots

33. Louis Vuitton

34. 25 e 83

35. March 07 (22) in NYC

36. To the ever renewing...Passover in NYC

37. The last Birthday present from Mom

38. Rosemary and Sydney aka Dutch Corner

39. Eames

40. Snarky me

41. Summer begins with a toast to a sabbatical

How to Make a Memory Box and Memory Box: Monogram Canvas, both 2011

2011-05-01T19:19:00.000-07:00

Memory boxes contain hidden objects and are meant to act as visual reminders of incidents or events one may want to remember. Memory boxes might hold items that are sentimental or broken but still meaningful. In the box the item can remain special and tangibly become a catalyst for memories in the same way a smell or taste can conjure up memories. Just as zeros are placekeepers in a math equation, these broken or small things can become the reminder of important memories and events. By working with these real, yet hidden, objects/mementos the memory box becomes both a record of the hidden object and an object itself.

HOW TO MAKE A MEMORY BOX

Step 1: As in book making you always want to work from the inside out. Begin by identifying the memory you are working with. Find an object or photograph that associates with that memory.

Example: My mother loved Louis Vuitton as did her husband. Louis Vuitton items were their gifts to each other. I found a very small shoulder bag in mom’s closet when I was cleaning out her house. At first I thought I might use it but the zipper was broken. I tried to have it repaired. I went to the LV store on 5th Avenue. They were quite rude. They said it was a “very old little bag” and that probably the zipper was no longer in stock. I was surprised because I had encountered very different customer service at LLBean and Patagonia. But I didn’t want to chuck the bag. I decided to use it for a memory box. I wanted to include a LV man’s wallet with it as well to remember my step-father and honor their happy marriage. I didn’t have a LV wallet. Canal Street provided.

Step 2: After identifying the object find a box that will fit it.

Example: At first I thought I would do a double piece using two boxes, but I ended up liking the simplicity of one box, and the fact that the purse and the wallet would be together.

Step 3: Refinish your found box to suitably house the item(s) you have selected.

Example: I created a dark stain on the wood sides because the classic Monogram canvas LV style is rather dark.

Step 4: Paint on the front-identified surface of the box. Use colors, textures and patterns that suggest the item and/or memory inside.

Example: I decided to use gold paint because these LV items are very expensive.

Step 5: Let dry. Once thoroughly dry turn the box over and drill a hole or place a mounting bracket. This will act as a hanging device for the memory box. This is when you can label the box, sign and date it. If you want the hidden object to remain a mystery you may also decide to seal the box at this time. I use sealing wax. (This also helps if the back panel is loose and slips.)

Memory Box, front and side views

note: to see more memory boxes go to my blog: from the third barn http://fromthethirdbarn.blogspot.com/

Word Count, 2002,2011

2010-10-01T16:05:00.000-07:00

Word Count, 29 pages,
handmade paper,
side sewn book form,

word cues as memories of events
from the year 2002

orange cigar box summer, 2010

2010-09-16T09:53:00.000-07:00

29 folded cards including a prologue and epilogue; acrylic, pencil, ink and various mediums

memories of the summer, June, July and August 2010

Summer Rain, acrylic on paper.

Sketchbook Project: Mapbook: Summer Dust, PA, 2010

2010-06-14T09:15:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook Project: Summer Dusk, PA; modified standard sketchbook, 8" x 5".
Theme: Lines and Grids, barcode id: 19530,
http://arthousecoop.com/users/patbadt or http://www.thesketchbookproject.com/

Mapbook: Through Deep Night, 2010

2010-02-26T08:30:00.001-08:00

cover: 7.5 x 9.25

title page

fully open, unique relief print, 26 x 20

Mapbook: Traveling at Dusk, 2010

2010-02-26T08:22:00.000-08:00

cover 7.5 x 9.25

title page

open, unique relief print on Rives lightweight, 26 x 20

Mapbook: To Grandmother's House, 2010

2010-02-26T07:47:00.001-08:00

cover; 7.5 x 9.25

title page

fully open, 10 color unique relief print on Rives lightweight 26 x 20

almost open

opening

Rain Map, 2009

2010-01-09T15:00:00.001-08:00

Rain Map (fully open), Relief print mounted in book form, oil based ink on Rives lightweight

Cover and Back cover, showing hanging ribbon

Fully open and Partially open

Red, 2009

2009-09-01T12:59:00.000-07:00

Red, a book about red.
Oil and oil stick on rag paper, @ 25" x 25", completed 2009
(for more information see http://fromthethirdbarn.blogspot.com/ May entries)

9 images of things red, a companion piece to Blue, a collection of 18 blue paintings with accompanying sound by Scott Sherk. Thought of as part of an ongoing series on color.

Warning

Wound (left), Wine (right)

Brick (left), Tendril (right)

Barn (left), Lebanon earth (right)

Smoke

Breath

Colophon

66 Degrees North, August Air, 2009

2009-05-01T13:16:00.000-07:00

66 Degrees North, August Air, book size @31" x 23"
folio-style book form with 3 images, text, quotes and colophon
book structure: metal siding and alumalite cover with book cloth and screening.

66 Degrees North, August Air

Rising

Awake

Retiring

paste paper made with Icelandic text

The Pokity Pok Story, 2008

2009-04-21T15:44:00.001-07:00

The Pokity Pok Story, a Badt family classic

Eagle and Rabbit, 2008

2009-04-21T14:23:00.001-07:00

Eagle and Rabbit, altered book form
5" x 5", text from Pops
via the internet

Iceland Notes, 2008

2008-01-02T14:00:00.000-08:00

Iceland Notes, 48 pages,
acrylic, gouache, pencil and ink
ring bound book form, 8.5" x 14"

Iceland Notes is made up of
memory sketches completed during
an artist residency in
Reykjavik, Iceland in August 2008.

Iceland Altered, 2008

2008-01-01T13:55:00.000-08:00

Iceland Altered (aka Seljavegur Reykjavik Iceland)
altered pamphlet book,
acrylic and magazine collage,
completed in Reykjavik, Iceland
August 2008

Two Chairs, 2003

2003-01-02T13:31:00.000-08:00

Two Chairs, 11" x 8",
17 Gum Arabic transfer prints
in open concertina-style book form

Wild Histories, 2002

2002-01-02T13:27:00.000-08:00

Wild Histories, modified sketchbook,
top sewn pages housed in
roll-spine book form, 9.5" x 7"

Bookmarks of the Seasons, 2001

2001-10-02T16:08:00.000-07:00

Bookmarks of the Seasons, edition of 5,
4 solar plate prints with text
(text by Rachel Sherk)
in handmade portfolio.

Summertime, 2001

2001-01-01T16:00:00.000-08:00

Summertime, 4 oil pastel
on diminishing size pages,
modified concertina binding.
book size 12" x 10"

1999 Postcard Log

1999-01-03T15:59:00.000-08:00

1999 Postcard Log,
@45 images, each 5.5" x 7.5",
acrylic and mixed media

Academic Calendar, 1999

1999-01-02T12:55:00.000-08:00

Academic Calendar,
12 oil on paper,
folding style book form in binder case

My Imaginary Vacation, 1997-99

1999-01-01T12:46:00.000-08:00

My Imaginary Vacation,
5" x 12", 9 oils on Indian Village
handmade paper in modified clamshell box

Winter Framed, 1997-98

1998-01-03T12:30:00.000-08:00

Wintered Framed, 11.75" x 11.75",
8 images, gouache, housed in clamshell box

Laura's Torah, 1998

1998-01-02T12:21:00.000-08:00

Laura's Torah, 22" x 4",
scroll in binding box

1998 Postcard Log

1998-01-01T19:29:00.000-08:00

1998 Postcard Log,
@44 images, 5.5" x 7.5",
Indian Village handmade paper

Letters 1962, 1996

1996-01-01T19:17:00.000-08:00

Letters 1962, handmade tablets
20" x 11", oil and acrylic,
text in modified clamshell box

Los Angeles Log, 1995

1995-01-01T19:16:00.000-08:00

Los Angeles Log, 4 images,
oil on paper, portfolio-style book form

Muncy Sutra Book, 1995

1995-01-01T19:12:00.000-08:00

Muncy Sutra Book, 7 paintings,
gouache and acrylic on heavy paper,
modified palm leaf book structure,
12" x 7"

Orefield Log 1994-95

1994-01-01T19:07:00.000-08:00

Orefield Log, @26 images each
21.5" x 17.5, oil and acrylic on
Indian handmade paper,
modified bookform

Japan Journal 1993-94

1993-01-01T19:01:00.000-08:00

Japan Journal, 48 gouache paintings
on Indian Village handmade paper in
4 folding-style books housed in a Cedar box