Hello there! My name is Erin Fletcher and I live in Boston working as a Bookbinder. Flash of the Hand is an extension of my portfolio website; a space where I can contain my inspirations while sharing them with you.
You’ll find a variety of different posts:
As a year long project, I hope to peer into the daily lives of my friends and family (while sharing mine as well) over a month long cycle per collaborator. Each day a photo will be sent at a random time capturing a brief moment of their day, the recipient must then reply immediately with a photo capturing a moment of their day.
Each post will show a pair of photos depicting an activity engaged by myself and another individual at the same moment (with my photo on the left and my collaborator’s on the right).
Bookbinding is one of the oldest trades that still thrives today and as someone who is apart of this small community I want to share my passion with you. Each month I will feature a Bookbinder and their work as way of showcasing depth of craftsmanship and art in this trade.
Book Arts is a field that stretches our concept of the book form: narration without words, experimental layouts and compositions, exploratory use of materials, etc. Each month I will feature a Book Artist and their work as way of showcasing an expression of bookmaking on the opposite spectrum of bookbinding.
Flash of the Hand is a corner of the net that collects artist who inspire me through their dedication to art and imagination. In these posts I will be promoting my own work, going more in-depth on my processes, techniques and inspirations.
Jason Fletcher (my husband) is a talented animator who digs out some of the wildest and most creative videos on the internet. As an advisor to each post, he will be bringing the entertainment.
Hi Erin,
I’ve been checking to see if you started your blog yet and voila! I check today and there’s lots of posts! I love the simplicity of the categories you have set, and their descriptions are just as thoughtful as I would expect from you. Jason (i assume) did a great job on the blog design :). My favorite posts are the daily glimpse and my hand and i love your life list! Such as excellent idea! One of my favorite bloggers, designer Emma Robertson maintained something similar called 25 before 25. I am so glad to see your blog already filled with such thoughtful posts. Hope to write to you soon.
Love, Bukola
Hi Erin,
We’ve enjoyed reading about this months Bookbinder, particularly as Edgar Mansfield was my step-Grandfather and step-Great-Grandfather to our children. Funnily enough, we were just talking to Richard, Edgar’s step-son, today about the use of the grain in the goatskins used for Edgar’s bindings as we’ve discovered many of them which we’d shipped over from New Zealand after finally clearing his and my Grandmother’s house in Napier. Sadly, we have no use for them and rather than let them deteriorate in storage, we’ve decided to put them up for auction. For your interest, the link is: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150950366239?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
(or do a search on Ebay for Edgar Mansfield) Hope you find them interesting. Keep up the good work! Yours Carl and Caroline Lochead