cydniey

altered books are damn fun! you can take text out of context and use it or you can ignore the text. you can black it out or cover it with something. i just introduced paint into the mix. that isn't so fun because you have to wait for it to dry, and i'm not so good at waiting so i'm sitting here typing this.

but really, it is such a release project. everything can be random and it is just a matter of making small collages. it is a great way to use up scraps of paper and scraps of collage stuff. i mean, i finally got to use my girl condom in a project. and it fit in with the text i highlighted. too perfect.

and the satisfaction of ripping pages out so the book shuts flush is so gratifying. i love it.

and i can quit any time and carve a hidey hole in the pages, hee.

so happy. i'm arting. that's what i do. i'm an artist. therefore i art.

the dollars blew away and
we played in the sun like children

i will post four million times today and not say one word of value. i can see it now. like looking into the future.

i have a book i can alter. i tore a bunch of pages out of it yesterday, now it is just begging to be altered more. and i really do want to fuck it up, i hated the book when i read it. i was warned against it too late. the only consolation, besides having the book to alter, is that i read it in only two days during a summer reading fest. so i didn't spend a lot of time on it.

what book is it? "Weaveworld" by clive barker. friends don't let friends read it. i mean really, you think i'm self indulgent and into masturbatory writing of nothing . . . well barker got it published. to me that makes it worse. oog.

but with his flowery prose in this it will be easy to find things on the page to inspire alteration. i wonder where all of my collage stuff is. i put it away. before the ECT. now i don't remember where it is. this blows. i'll find it. i have to. i am bored stupid.

i finished the 1000_journals journal #78 done this morning, as well as all the ebay packing. three day turnaround on the artjournal. what can i say, i was inspired this morning.

( wanna see the pages i did? )

so i feel all accomplished. i also feel creative and fairly sure i will make something today. i really need to get the prototype wine charms done so i can make any alterations to the process. they take three days to cure. and about a day or day and a half to prepare for the resin

i have this nagging feeling i should be making something for someone and i can't remember who.

i need to dust.

this isn't one of the ones for 1000_journals, this is one i am doing on my own, filling up a really old sketch book that i never really sketched in. the paper is think and i figured i could do a lot to it

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