Fly Away handmade book #16 flew away to a collector in the Netherlands in 2024. Here is a peek at this unique 1/1 handcrafted book.
Books 17-25 are still available to purchase. Once book #25 is sold, I will no longer be making these.
You can purchase a book here
https://www.melissalazuka.art/product/fly-away-handmade-artist-book
I had such a lovely shoot with Elena. We took photos at Fowler’s Mill golf course and there were so many scenic spots. The bridge was a favorite. The light was beautiful on this July summer’s night and Elena’s gorgeousness really was shining too. She was so sweet and completely comfortable in front of the camera. There were so many photos from the shoot that I loved! Take a look.
I recently dropped off 2 fine prints and a signature lay flat 12 x 12 album in midnight blue with silver foil (client’s choice) to a senior from last summer. Here are some pictures🖤!
The colors of summer I noticed today…. delicate white blossoms hanging from deep green leaves… soft shadows falling on floating pink petals… pale sky blues and yellow greens colliding with rainbow light…
It was such an honor to have my artist photobook, “fly away” included in The Photobook Journal’s “Interesting books of 2019.” You can read the list and see all the other books chosen here !
Here are some pages from book #8 “fly away” that was just finished for a collector in California. They are unique handmade editions in a series of 25. This is the series artist statement:
Fly Away
”In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die; Ever drifting down the stream, Lingering in the golden gleam - Life, what is it, but a Dream?" - Lewis Carroll There is a very short period of time that everyone is a child, and only so many summers we can experience as a child, before they "die", and we must become adults. In this series, I focus on the fleetingness of time, and the dream like world my daughter takes me to, as she escapes into her imagination in the outside world of our home, the Ohio landscape. Through multiple exposures and a technique called freelensing in which I hold my broken film lenses, detached from the camera, I have tried to create the world which she imagines and inhabits. One in which time is irrelevant and where fairies do exist, and she is Queen of the Butterflies. It is an escape to wonderland, a dream world she flies away to, and always comes back.
This is a series of 25 and books 9-25 are still available to purchase here
