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Article: Book: Picture Perfect.(sketchbook passed back and forth from New York to Northern Ireland)(Brief Article)
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- August 29, 2005
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Byline: Elise Soukup
It costs $50 to $90 to FedEx a sketchbook from New York to Northern Ireland, depending on the size. That's one of many lessons Mac Premo, a Brooklyn artist, learned when he embarked on "book," a project in which he and three buddies--one in Brooklyn, two in Belfast--became "paint pals" by passing around an ever-expanding sketchbook for 36 weeks. There were a few rules: the artists couldn't discuss the project's meaning and they had only five days to respond to the last entry.
The finished product, which will be exhibited by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York City in September before traveling to ...