The Book of the Dark

The Book of the Dark

This was a commission to make a book for the writer, Mark Halliley’s wife.

The Book of the Dark is a book of poems about the dark night of the soul in a modern form – the experience of trauma and the long painful struggle back towards the light, written by writer and director Mark Halliley

White Gouache written in metal nib on a selection of black papers including Canson Ingres, Fabriano Ingres, Hahnemuhle and Somerset with covered boards in Les Jali and Chiyogami.  The black binding is interspersed with white decorated Japanese tissues featuring feathers of exotic birds and finally tied with antique satin black ribbon.