Distribution

Identify, contact, and market to potential customers. Finally, complete the administrative aspects of the bookwork.

I’m finally at the last stage of the creative process and I’m delighted to announce the release of my new artists’ book Infatuation. I did it and happy to have met my deadline. This post is the last post on the Creative Process.

The publication of Infatuation came after a long journey starting in November 2021 using photographs from my family albums and stills from streaming the western TV show Lancer. This book documents the concept of “becoming of age” of a young girl in 1968-1970.

© 2022 Louise Levergneux. Infatuation wrapped with a red cow suede with skeleton key in pink gold.

© 2022 Louise Levergneux. Infatuation in a Drumleaf structure.

Infatuation was explored in various ways, through the study of adolescent feelings and investigating the background of the actors and the series itself. I viewed videos of the original TV show and visited filming locations in California last July and August.

I chose this particular book to learn about and demonstrate the Creative Process — the optimization of each phase of the creative process. My purpose was to determine the nature and number of stages present in my own creative visual artistic process. I was seeking to understand the explicit creativity phases associated with my artists’ book. I discerned the need to verbalize and document an implicit process and to document it. Normally the process is instinctual. I felt the urge to expose these feelings and insights.

© 2022 Louise Levergneux. Infatuation opened in the middle of the book showing the small accordion book inserted at the bottom of the book.

© 2022 Louise Levergneux. Infatuation seen from the top opened in 360°.

Infatuation is an assemblage of folios bound in the Drumleaf structure. Infatuation is meant to be read in a sequential fashion. The narration begins with: “I have a dream, a fantasy to help me through Reality.” Eventually, the young girl’s reality of the celebrity crush matures and the reader is left with “Memories that remain…”

Now comes the Prospectus, along with the identification of potential customers for the book launch. Collections need to be logged and contacts approached to determine the level of interest in acquiring the artists’ book, Infatuation.

© 2022 Louise Levergneux. Infatuation, page 3.

© 2022 Louise Levergneux. Infatuation, page 5.

© 2022 Louise Levergneux. Infatuation, page 9.

This has been an incredible journey. I can only pray that the blog reader has gained insight into the Creative Process and the intricacies of manifesting a concept into an object within the physical realm.

“Everyone sees what you seem, but few know what you are.” Machiavelli.