Art and Fear!

I've been sorting through some of my past work trying to find two plates (also from the past) that I thought I might work on and modify using some techniques I learnt at Hot-Bed Press.  I came across these old prints from the trees series that didn't quite work and it reminded me that I was going to try one of the book folding techniques to introduce a 3D element into the process.  I tried using acrylic cylinders a while ago but the difficulty of cutting the acrylic put me off this as a construction technique and I then wondered about book art and paper folding.  This paper is a little too rigid and the folding techniques maybe a little too simple, but maybe it will work with softer hand-made paper.  Another one for the back-burner!  I was reading a magazine article on Creativity on the BBC website about how creative ideas need lots of previous failures in order to come up with something that's truly original - maybe I'll get there one of these days.  I've certainly got an awful lot of stuff now in folders and drawers that has never really developed into anything!