PEACE
During the months of November, 2009 through the start of February, 2010 The Geauga County Park District held The DiscARTed Art Show revolving around the theme of recycling. Artists submitted a range of works from stringed instruments made from cigar boxes (a bluegrass band played them the night of the opening), to lamps, jewelry, wall art, huge iron sculptures......
I submitted this book.
Last spring our school librarian was getting rid of boxes and boxes of books, to make room for more computers. (I've got mixed feelings about that.)
I took many of the books for conversion to Art; for both me and my students. The book I reworked was from a series called THE GREAT IDEAS. Full of writings by philosophers of whose work I know next to nothing. The first page (shown above) includes some of the names; Cervantes, Descartes, Spinoza, Newton, Locke, Hume. Faraday--these last three names are significant for any LOSTIES out there!
When I started with the book this summer, I used the pages in a random fashion for wiping my excess paint from my brushes. Which then becomes a nice start for sketching, painting or collaging on.
What you see here is the Front Cover and the inside cover (p. 1)
Collage, oil paint, oil pastel, photographs, string.
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