When coming up with the idea for
my book, I decided that I wanted to do something original. I would have
loved to make a nice leather bound tome, but I decided against it. Over
the summer my father inherited a house from one of our neighbors who had
passed away with no living relatives. Next to this old house was an old
barn that had fallen down during a storm. My father decided that the
first thing he needed to do to this house was to clean up the pile of
junk the barn had become. While helping my father clean it up we found
these printing plates lying around. We also later discovered that Robert
Deurward, the man who had owned the house, had used these printing plates
to patch holes in his roof. When this project came around I knew right
away what I wanted to do. I had my father cut the plates up into the
right size and send them out. Earlier in the year we had been working
with collage so I decided that I would take the plates and create collage
type images on them with ink. The images I choose were from parts of the
"freewrite" that we had to do one time.
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