Marly, Andrew and I have been tipped into activity again on The Foliate Head, and just at a point when we thought our work on the book was over. Through complications arising from unforeseen printing restrictions, we found ourselves with a further eight pages to fill if we were not to have an embarrassing number of blank ones at the tail-end of the book. Luckily there was a green man poem lurking in a long-past post of the Artlog, and reminding Marly of its whereabouts, combined with some page reorganisation she and Andrew came up with, saved the day.
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While they were juggling pages I was inventing another decoration for the book. And because Green Wednesday is a poem about a green man mask I once made in the likeness of my father, I had the happy task of remembering his fabulously, luxuriantly moustachioed face into a new drawing. Re-inventing him once more into leafy form so many years after I first did it, and moreover having the drawing sitting next to his poem in The Foliate Head, will make the book even more special… if that’s possible… than it already was for me.
