Day 65 - "Anthem" - A Back-to-Back Accordion Book

Once again, I chose this structure from Alisa Golden's "Making Handmade Books: 100 Bindings & Structures," (my new Bible), as something I liked the looks of and wanted to try. But I didn't want to make it blank. Most of the books I've made over the years have been blank journals. Finding content for some has been more of a challenge.

A few days ago, someone quoted the chorus of the Leonard Cohen song "Anthem" and I loved it. I looked up the rest of the lyrics and one stanza in particular spoke to me (and seemed eerily timely). I had my content.

The structure is basically two accordion fold books back to back, stitched together in the valley folds.On each side, I watercolored a long swash of fading color then hand wrote the lyrics to that one stanza on the first side and the chorus on the other. Here are the lyrics I used:

Can't run no more with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned,
they've summoned up the thunder,
and they're going to hear from me.

Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.