Los que dieron sus alas están tristes,
de no verlas volar.
[Those who gave away their wings are sad
not to see them fly.]
Antonio Porchia
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A “Leporello” is a booklet in the form of a long strip of paper. It is folded like an accordion. A “Leporello” is therefore also known as a folding book.
The name “Leporello” is taken from the opera “Don Giovanni” by Amadeus Mozart. This opera features the womaniser Don Giovanni, who has a servant called Leporello. He has been commissioned by his master Don Giovanni to compile a list with the pictures and names of all the ladies he has seduced.
Leporello stapled many sheets of paper together, and as they grew longer and longer, he folded them. The name "Leporello" emerged from the folded booklet.
Painful trouble flares
different choices split old bonds
loss can be a birth
[Handmade accordion book]
Emerging from algae
Living among filaments
Science obsolete
[Handmade accordion book]
Eina | From 2016 to 2017 I accompanied a little beautiful boy (two years old) in a children's hospice Berlin. This book is dedicated to him.
©2022 Handmade book. 10,00 x 34,7 cm.
“Nature’s Brush” , 2023. Accordion Book.
Made on the occasion of the exhibition in 2023
“Dampfer, Deiche, Dramen” at
“Museum Kunst der Westküste”,
Island of Föhr, Germany.
Monotypes printed onto
Japanese Gampi paper, beeswax, pencil
onto archival museum board,
100% cotton fiber.
Size: 20 x 240 cm
Immer [Always] 2022. Accordion Book.
Pencil on Japanese Kozo paper. 80 x 180 mm [January 2022]
Dedicated to Kenneth Maue