{"id":131,"date":"2019-03-17T08:02:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T08:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/lostpathpress\/?p=131"},"modified":"2022-11-16T13:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:44:52","slug":"ss-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/lostpathpress\/2019\/03\/17\/ss-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"SS Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A site visit to the Steam Trawler Explorer<\/a> proved inspiring. A Nationally Registered Historic Ship<\/a>, the SS Explorer was used as a research vessel and the protection society is now trying to raise funds to restore the vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 books have been made so far, using material gathered from the visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking some of the rusty utilitarian details and symplifying the shapes a seties of woodblocks were carved to make symbolic illustrations for a limited edition (10) concertina book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A small meander book with 24 images of details found on the ship is available to download as a pdf file<\/a> to print at home. <\/p>\n\n\n

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A site visit to the Steam Trawler Explorer proved inspiring. A Nationally Registered Historic Ship, the SS Explorer was used as a research vessel and the protection society is now trying to raise funds to restore the vessel. 2 books have been made so far, using material gathered from the visit. Taking some of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[60,61,58,62,59],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists-books","category-small-editions","tag-concertina","tag-meander","tag-print","tag-ssexplorer","tag-woodblock"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/lostpathpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/woodblock.jpg?fit=2366%2C2366&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9CgjG-27","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":246,"url":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/lostpathpress\/2019\/08\/14\/forth-margins\/","url_meta":{"origin":131,"position":0},"title":"Forth Margins","author":"LPP","date":"2019-08-14","format":false,"excerpt":"Forth Margins - woodblocks by J Rowan, accordion book designed and published by Lost Path Press, 2019. 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