The Book of the Erinyes

I’ve just dropped a mes­sage to Nina—who did some life mod­el­ling for me a year-or-so ago—to see if she’s avail­able to model for the third of the Fur­ies.  If so then I’ll have mod­els for all three, and I’ll feel like this whole pro­ject is on safer ground!

Regard­less of that, I’ve got this com­ing week planned out:

• Monday to Wed­nes­day: fin­ish writ­ing text for the Book of the Erinyes
• Thursday (pay­day!): pay mem­ber­ship at Brighton Print­mak­ing Centre and book use of the Let­ter­press machine
• Sat­urday: buy the first batch of art paper for the pages of the book
• The week after: start com­pos­it­ing the text at the Print­mak­ing centre and start print­ing out the pages

If I can get all that done then I should have some res­ults to post on this site very soon.

It’s look­ing like an increas­ingly busy few months ahead!  I knew this pro­ject would take some con­sid­er­able time right back when I took my Let­ter­press print­ing course back in February-April.

I’ve got most of the text for the Book of the Erinyes writ­ten (you can view it here) and some­time over August/September I will be com­pos­it­ing the text in old lead move­able type, then print­ing it out.

With regards to the art­work, I’ve already done a test set of pho­to­graphs with my artistic partner-in-crime Alice Kemp (who will be tak­ing the role of Megeara) to explore the ini­tial con­cepts.  Hope­fully we’ll be arran­ging the pho­toshoot itself one week­end this month.

Next come the other two Fur­ies.  Abbie has agreed to model for Tisi­phone (hope­fully some­time late Septem­ber), but I’m still look­ing for a model for Alecto.  If you’re inter­ested and you’re in the South-East of Eng­land then let me know!