#AlteredBooks

Petra van CronenburgNatureMC@mastodon.online
2024-12-16
Smooth paper with embossed colours in pink shades. Used washed coffee filter with hammer printing of rose petals. Besides the interesting texture, the paper smells nice.A book page with abstract leaves and mark-making in black, blue and pink colours. It's a gelli print with real leaves.4 pages of paper in blackish and brownish colour tones. It looks as if the paper has been watercoloured with abstract landscapes, but this is a combination of rust and plant print. Some plants are hammered on the white paper. The paper itself was bundled and soaked in rust fluid for at least 4 days, then dried.Two papers are stitched on a dark jeans-blue kraft paper. One is yellowish and transparent, stitched with green thread: it's a curcuma-dyed used tea bag. The other paper, soft and with holes, is stitched with white paper thread. It has irregular patches of rose petals in hammer print. Part of an art journal project.
Of Bookish ThingsJPK_elmediat@c.im
2023-11-09

#DadaistJournal (Ridiculously Good Ideas) : Mark A/ed – a Dadaist Doodle Poem

This doodle word collage was done as a prompt exercise, before I decided to use the Ridiculously Good Ideas as a Dadaist Journal. I went back and decided to add asemic glyphs and cut-ups. This particular composition is an example of #DadaistDoodlePoetry.
All are welcome to try it for themselves. Just free associate words, and doodle away, then add whatever cut-ups you wish. There is no right or wrong, just experiment.

I don't qualify as an insider, when it comes to art, nor does my spot on the societal web hierarchy make me an outsider -  so this is neither outsider nor insider art. I guess it is "inbetweener" art  (one foot in the vestibule, the other on the sidewalk).

Along with the composition, I have included the text of the free association #ProsePoem stanza, in a layout that offers a possible reading.

#Dada #Dadaist #DoodlePoem
#Dadaism #AsemicWriting
#AsemicWriting #Doodle
#VisualPoetry #Vispo
#ProsePoem #ProsePoetry
#DadaistArtJournal
#DadaistWordCollage
#WordCollage #ArtJournalling
#Collage #CollageArt
#Poetry #CutUps #AlteredBookArt
#DadaistPoetry #AlteredBooks

The upper third of the page is a doodle of interconnected shapes and faces. There is a large asemic glyph written over part of the doodle. The words, Mark A/ed, are visible. Cur-ups of faces are placed over sections of the doodle.
The centre is the prose poem stanza of free-associated words, with no punctuation.
The bottom section of the page is a doodle of faces inter-linked into a distorted cube. Some of the faces are made-up of assemic glyphs.  A large black glyph is written over part of the doodle. There is a small cut-up of a bare-chested man looking downwards at the glyph.Mark A/ed

 

We  All unhappy    quiet match

Age had    know       step

Change given  better is

 

learn

up way

 

comb    mouse

 

A few

 

other

passerbys
autumn dog 🪴:knife_agender:valhund@mastodon.art
2023-05-28

I thifted these little books yesterday on the curbside. They will be repurposed, because I really love their formats and the illustrations in the smaller one.

The Goethe book, I am not sure. It will either be an #AlteredBooks project, or I will gut it and just use the cover for something else.

#MastoCraft

Two small books, on the left is a bigger one with Goethe's poems, on the right is a smaller one with Eastern wisdom.
autumn dog 🪴:knife_agender:valhund@mastodon.art
2023-04-25

Another #painting from my old bird book. Tulips in watercolor. The bird skeleton is not drawn by me, but is an illustration from the book itself. The book was illustrated by Ferdinand Barth.

#AlteredBooks #watercolor #art #MastoArt #ArtistsOfMastodon #tulips

Photo of a book page illustrated with a bird skeleton in the upper right corner, painted over by me with a bouquet of red tulips with big great leaves.
2023-01-13

Was I supposed to remove pages? Only adding stuff is sure making it hard to close!

#RhetoricalQuestion I couldn't have picked pages to rip out!

#CollageArt #AlteredBooks

The pages of a hardbound book with a red cover, no longer able to close because of so many inclusions and glued-in additions.
2022-12-07

@tomorgel ich bin ja jemand, der richtig alten zerfledderten Büchern eine "Heimat" bietet. Wenn die alte Flora und Fauna Zeichnungen haben und in Fraktur gedruckt sind, macht man #junkjournaling Menschen eine Freude. Oder HC Bücher mit interessanten Covern. Selbst alte Readers Digest lassen sich noch gut zu #alteredBooks umbasteln. Wobei alte Simmels, Konsaliks und Danellas wirklich nur noch als Grundlage für Buchtresore/Buchverstecke taugen.

2022-11-19

Mantel decor with bowl from local potter, #alteredbooks #collage (gift from talented former student, now at SCAD), and fox #embroidery made by best Librarian and advocate I've ever known.

Green bowl with dots,  drawing if young woman with bookpages for skirt, round embroidered piece with fox and flowers.
2022-11-14

I'm watching the video overview of #Sebastopol Center for the #Arts Pulp 2022 #exhibit of #PaperArt, #AlteredBooks, #Paper #Sculpture and other delights. Thanks to the weekly newsletter of Helen Hiebert. youtube.com/watch?v=5EhIg9H0Gv

Screenshot from 28 minute video of a variety of paper art
2018-09-22

#alteredbooks #art awww puppies

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