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Small notes from a quiet studio. This is the long-running notebook of Spare Pages No. 30, written from a north-facing room somewhere in northern Europe. It is mostly about slow work — letterpress, ink, walking, the books we keep — and only occasionally about anything else.
ritual time
Notes on the half-hour between the first and the second cup of tea — the only window in the day when nothing is required of me. Continue reading →
memory practice
For two years I have kept an index of every book I finished, written by hand. Here is what that taught me about memory and patience. Continue reading →
craft ritual
On the small ritual of mixing ink, the way light falls in a north-facing room, and the difference between practice and rehearsal. Continue reading →
process practice
Half the projects in the studio are unfinished. For a long time that bothered me. Lately I think the unfinished pile is the real archive. Continue reading →
About this notebook Spare Pages No. 30 is a one-person studio kept by Theo Marlowe. There is nothing to subscribe to and nothing to buy. Everything here is written slowly, by hand first, and posted only when it feels finished enough to leave alone.
If you would like to write back, you are welcome to. Letters are answered, eventually.
Write [email protected] Hours Most weekday afternoons, CET Place A studio in northern Europe Started 2018 aRsnDR/4LKl+TP35D55nl61C0SRebZeOMS9mM5GW5arTCG0QvjC/zbF46SjxSeQIuupBzMlRB=jM626C4cYhxfrLe9Lf33IH0
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