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Their Families, Betty Bard MacDonald
Full leather binding with laced-on boards. Bound in painted fair calf. Pastedowns and flyleaves in paper. Painted top edge. Silk woven end-bands. Titled on fair calf band. Bound in 2025.
Artist Statement
This binding is inspired by the wonderfully eccentric father in the narrative and the painting he develops throughout the story. The design draws from his eccentric lifestyle and is built up in layers of dye applied to mylar and then transferred onto the leather.
The contrast between the father’s intense creative vision and the more restrained perspective of the young couple informs the binding. What they dismiss as “rotten” reflects a tension between convention and artistic expression, which I sought to echo through both process and surface.
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