Feeding The Mirror

 Of all the materials I use in my art work

I love vintage book pages the best.

I love everything about this type of paper:

the aged coloring, the dryness, the smell, the text.

I've seen lots of fabulous work from book artists

on the net. Brain Dettmer exemplifies, for me,

the best of the best, the master of altered books.

(If you havn't found his web page, http://briandettmer.com/

I encourage you to go there!)

 I've been experimenting with book pages for years,

have altered books & made book cover collages

but so far I have not been able

to satisfy my desire

to come up with a new way to use the paper

that is in the realm of my current technical ability.

So I decided to feed a sewn page

of a 1930's typing manual and

some tea bags to the altering angles

of the PaintShop pro mirror.

 I so wish I had the expertise to sew like this!

(sigh!)

But I do get much pleasure at seeing the re-arrangement of text

and the remarkable order and flow

of the altered photos:

there are surprises of angels

to discover!