Saturday, May 14, 2011

New Books for a New Chapter...of my Life...Get it? It's a Metaphor

Well, it's official: I'm a college graduate! Here are a couple books I finished recently. This first one is a cake-shaped book for my little sister's birthday:

Image hosting by IMGBoot.com

Image hosting by IMGBoot.com

Image hosting by IMGBoot.com

Then I made this book and box so I could have a little book that was a perfect cube:

Image hosting by IMGBoot.com

Image hosting by IMGBoot.com

Image hosting by IMGBoot.com

Image hosting by IMGBoot.com

And finally, this is an altered book that I made out of a thrift store find called "The Adventures of Philip, Volume 2." It was published in 1900, and I thought the title was so hilarious that I had to illustrate it. The author's name was Thackeray, but I thought that in my story, Thackeray should be a monster that Philip has to defeat:

Image hosting by IMGBoot.com

Everything inside is carved into the actual book pages and painted/collaged; the dirigible is a pop up!

Image hosting by IMGBoot.com

Image hosting by IMGBoot.com

In the end, Philip just turns out to be a dorky guy dreaming of adventure from his study. Aww. The middle panel has holes in it, so you can see from spread to spread:

Image hosting by IMGBoot.com

Later tonight, I'll post pictures of my exit show installation. But for now, thanks for reading about the books!

2 comments:

  1. This reminds me a lot of your work: http://www.laboiteverte.fr/des-sculptures-sur-livres/

    ReplyDelete
  2. I've heard that from a few people! That's Brian Dettmer, and I had the pleasure of hearing a lecture by him recently; I love his work!

    ReplyDelete