Happy Abstract’s text is an 1801 letter from the extant correspondence between William Blake and his white-collar sponsor Thomas Butts, and serves as a testimonial to the underpinnings of friendship, a window into the creative process, and a spotlight on self-awareness.  My binding of Happy Abstract employs the Gebrochener ruecken structure in full navy goatskin with multicolor goat skin onlays, and stuck-on double core leather headbands.  The leather onlay graphic, stretching cover to cover, draws from Blake’s Ancient of Days. The original depicts a crouched God, or in Blakes’s vernacular, Urizen, with an outstretched compass in the act of creation. The enclosure is covered with kraft-tex, lined with rust laval cloth, and features an inset paper label.  Styling the enclosure as a brown paper wrapped parcel acknowledges the Blake-Butts correspondence history.  

Dimensions: 9 x 6 ½ x ¾ ‘’