Family Album Pop-Up Bookmaking.3 @ Queens Library 4/25/2023

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"Creative Aging: Virtual Family Album Pop-Up Bookmaking"

Tuesday April 25, 2023


This was our 3rd class, and it was great to see a lot of familiar faces. Sonia continues to inspire us with the pages she made during the week. She shared her pop-up home page which featured her apartment building and church. In the front she added footsteps to mark her path to and from her home. 

 

The warmup asked participants to close their eyes and imagine what they might see outside their window. Upon opening their eyes, they showed an expression on their face and in their body, which demonstrated to others what they saw, such as fear, disgust, surprise, happiness and welcoming.

 

I shared my pop-up window page and told the story of what I saw through my childhood window into our backyard, a hills hoist which was the clothesline, and the swings my Dad built. 

 

Spica demonstrated a new technique, how to construct a V-Fold Stand. This is the basic mechanism which allows pop-ups to operate. I shared the two concepts studied in today’s class, Foreground and Background. I asked participants to think about whether they wanted to look through their window from inside their house, in which case they would make a background, or look through the window from outside, and therefore make a foreground. 

 

Next, they considered the type of window they wanted to make. Spica showed different examples of windows and made one which was solid and another with panes which opened, using the same design concept as The Flap learnt in last week’s class. Sonia shared her window set on groovy 1970s style brightly colored floral wallpaper. Pat made a 4 paned window and included the latches on top of the bottom panes. 

 

Participants carefully glued the 2 V-Fold stands into the Base Page they chose for their Pop-Up Window page. We encouraged them to use the same color for the V-Fold Stands as the Base page, so they blended. Next, they decided if their window would be placed on the front V-Fold Stand or the back one and on which side. These decisions related to whether they were creating a Foreground image, or a Background image seen through the window. 

 

As our class was a little shorter today, only one and a half hours instead of two, as Madlyn was short staffed, we waited in anticipation to see the finished Pop-Up Window pages our participants created.

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