Bookbinding

You’re going to get a quick and easy Japanese lesson unless you already speak and read Japanese in which case this might be boring? Rhinoceros in Japanese is Sai with the accompanying kanji being 犀. The English river in Japanese transforms to Kawa with its kanji being three vertical lines; one is not straight: 川. Together they form one of the two major rivers that flow through Kanazawa: the Saigawa (犀川) – the K morphs into G in dual kanji. The other river is the Asanogawa which means shallow river, and it is. Shallow. The Saigawa could be called the Rhino River. 

My Rhino River is a 120-page, A6-size, collage covered blank notebook. I’m attempting to push my personal bookbinding skill envelope out a bit. This is why titles appear on spines and collages appear as book covers. With my Rhino River the collage has rhinoceroses front and back. A solid rhino on the front and an outline on the back. People populate the interior of the rhino on the back and tower over the rhino on the front cover. There is also a cow, harvesters ala van Gogh, a guitar museum, and a vague Shakespeare photo. 

Fiction

Work is going slow on the two works in progress I have stacked up on my To Write List: Zuihitsu and Caraculiambro. The former is moving slowly but steadily onward. It has two or three separate stories that may collide at one point. Shortly after the collision, Zuihitsu might come to a satisfying closure.

Caraculiambro is dragging. I need to re-read it to understand exactly what is going on but reading is wearing me down. Just imagine: the writer is confused about what he has written; someone’s brain needs refreshing.

Moving Pictures

TDGB 74 Rhino River is up for your visual pleasure as is TDGB 73 Making a Collage to see how I stumble through my collage making; you might learn something. Fingers crossed. 

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