Leona

This is a one-of-a-kind journal upcycled from a discarded book, "Leona" by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino. On the front cover is my original acrylic painting of an imagined Leona. I bound the pages into the book cover using a cross-variant of long and kettle stitches. These are visible on the spine over ribbons, which serve to anchor the cover to the book block (a term meaning all the pages of a book as a whole). The book block contains four signatures (a term for groups of pages). I used lined paper from an overstock composition book for the pages. I hand tore each paper to the size needed for the book cover. I include out-of-context quotes from the original book on several of the pages. These can be used as writing prompts.