03 February 2009

Altered book - second stage

With the Chinese-English section of the book changed irrevocably, what to do with the English-Chinese part? I decided to deal with each letter as a separate section, marking it off by folding the page at the start of each letter, then painting it with pearlescent paint. The pages either side were all but obscured with ordinary white (acrylic) paint -
I chose one word (for whatever reason, or no particular reason) and stamped it, on all the right-hand pages -
then listed the chosen words at the start of each section -
"R" was the first section finished - after reaching the end of the alphabet, I worked backwards. Thus the most awkward stamping (and listing) wasn't at the start of the book, where someone might look first.
Even with reading through only the words on the right-hand pages, this all took ages. So many pages, so many decisions!
But I don't feel it's quite finished, yet....

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