This project is about the consumer culture that affects any aspect of our lives and encourages the customers to buy extra supplies and materials. For the three years I lived in Melbourne; I collected several free advertising magazines from different shops. Each time I collect them, I tell myself that I will read them, use the content and recipes, but unfortunately, they end up on my bookshelves. So finally, for this project, I chose to use them with a purpose. Motivated by unread magazines, I decided to create a sculptural book exactly replicating the pile of magazines.
These are the Coptic stitch’s steps that I follow.
As the tread passes through signatures, the height of the pile in the spine becomes higher than the forage. I slightly changed my plan to solve this problem by changing a simple Coptic stitch book to the Do Si Do Coptic stitch book.
I ended up stitching 202 signatures together for this book.
The whole book turned out lovely and so fragile. Thus, I decided to make a box to keep it safe. After several trials and errors, finally, I finished a perfect box. The photos below show the steps I follow.
Finished book photos:
