Progress on book art for postcards from Interim Show

Working on a bunch of projects at the same time (which I think is actually a lot of fun and a good thing as long as you make progress on the all) so trying to remember to update this blog on them all - viz:

• Wish You Were Hear - aka mental health postcards - see below
• A month in my head - still casting little wax heads... I need about 3 more and I can/should bite the bullet and start the month :-/
• Rivers of Silver - aka masks - added a layer of newspaper to 'Guilt' today actually, should do a post on it soon...
• This Homeland - initial render done, brief chat with Roz, playing with other rendering styles (e.g. Freestyle renderer in Blender)

So for "Wish You Were Hear", I want to make book art out of the cards - to hopefully preserve them, but also give something people can look at/dip into in future. After a good chat with Karen, I think I'm still thinking of an accordian book - simple, easy, robust... But it does give me a couple of questions:

1. What order do I put the cards in?
2. Should I put cards on the front and the back?
3. Do I add any text/illustrations of my own?

For now I'm thinking about the order. My initial plan was to organise them into topics, but that's proven rather hard, a bit arbitrary, and maybe a bit directive - I want people to have the same joy of discovery that I had looking at the board... 

A lot of the cards can be grouped into several topics, and actually some sit nicely between topics... So I sort of want a map... I toyed with the idea of using a Self-Organising Map - I've been itching to find a use for one since before my MA.. I might do that for the virtual version, but for this version it doesn't really work I think...

I left the question to stew and an alternative popped up - rather than organise them by topic, organise them by the predominant emotion... It's simple, it's fairly robust, it creates a nice 'flow' and if I don't advertise it, it will feel natural but probably won't be obvious... The plan is to sort the cards into emotions, then order them within each emotion to try to come up with a natural 'flow' from one to another without breaks... So that's what my table is given over to:

Before I assemble anything, I want to digitise them... Not looking forward to that, especially given my broken phone camera :-/ I could really do with a flatbed scanner ;)

Once I have them sorted, I need to get some good quality paper and start experimenting...