Monday, March 2, 2009

Disintegration






Late to the game - but I'm in! Seth of The Altered Page is hosting - Disintegration - artists all over the globe are putting paper bundles (of all kinds) out in nature for several months. Take a beginning photo and then photograph the evidence as time goes on, until the final picture on May 1st - the last day.





Here's my contribution: several old book blocks (the entire book minus the covers) tied together with green and yellow tri-ply string. I used two old books - 100 years plus- and two newer ones - published in the last 20 years. It will be interesting to see the difference of disintegration to the two ages of paper. They sit on a bench in my front garden, underneath a eucalyptus tree waiting to receive the elements. No worry of snow here in Morro Bay, but rain, wind, lots of salt air and eucalyptus detritus.


9 comments:

  1. What a fun project! I dropped in to see you because I just discovered Morro Bay recently and enjoyed it so much. I also love the quote on your header! I always head to the ocean to cleanse myself an allow my creativity to flow. Nice to meet you! ~ Jacque

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  2. That's going to be awesome! I can't wait to see the progress as the weather gets to it.

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  3. What a fascinating project! Curiosity will have me returning to your site for updates. Now, if you were in Boston, today's storm totaling 10" of heavy white stuff would have gotten things off to an interesting start! Can't wait to see what Mother Nature does in Morro Bay! ~Franny

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  4. So glad you decided to join in Erin. I love the stack of book blocks that you turned into a bundle. The paper will look so good on May 1!

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  5. Lovely bundle of book papers for disintegration!

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  6. What a cool looking bundle! A great idea! I'm glad you joined up. May 1 will be very busy around the blogiverse!

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  7. Love the photograph of the books, bench, tree!

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  8. I want to rescue the old books and make them into new ones... maybe there will eb pages worth rescuing still when May rolls around and we can negotiate their ransom??

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  9. What a DELICIOUS bundle of books!! I can't wait to see what happens!! Happy Collaborating!!

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