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Published: 2010-06-12 08:59:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 1126; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 37
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Altered Book spread.The book is/was a Folio collection of William Hazlitt's essays, so I took my inspiration and title for each spread from the title of the essay in each section.
Collage; acrylic glazes; packing-tape transfers; vintage Japanese woodcut print sliced into strips; washi paper scraps. The "bookmark" is a cracked vintage optician's lens on red ribbon and gold thread with a red silk tassel. (It is specifically meant to go with this page but can move to mark any of the other pages in this book.) Copper tape page edging.
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Wow, this is so intricate and layered, I'm just going to stare at it for a while longer...
The lens is an awesome detail, too.
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OH WOW!!!
I'm so in love right now.
Smitten.
I think I'll just stare at this for a bit. It's incredibly beautiful.
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Thanks for the nice compliment. It was originally a spread that I was really unhappy with - I had started with the woman and the butterfly and the telephone dial on the left page and it was just looking so pathetically pointless that I wanted to tear the whole spread out. And then I thought - whatthehell, it's an epic fail anyway, let me just play with it and make an enjoyable mess. And voila - I loved how it turned out. Now I just need to apply that learning about dealing with failure to the rest of my life ...
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I love it. Many times I went through the same: when desperate measurs taken on the verge of giving up rescued the picture and turned it into something new and fresh. Sometimes there are epic fails, and sometimes fails become an epic work.
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And I have also taken a delighted childish pleasure in scribbling wildly over really unsalvageable fails, tearing the paper up and scattering the pieces triumphantly to the winds. Whatthehell, art is for fun, right?
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The magnifying glass bookmark is a clever and perfect accent to this brilliant book.
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