Book and Paper art

PP&M: Blog entry  9

Having deciding I needed to do some more research, I took to Pintrest. I found loads of incredible stuff, but am just going to pick out a few things, for this post, that I found really interesting. You can go to the board I created by clicking here.

The first artist I found was Will Ashford( I mentioned his work in my previous post, Blog entry 8)

Will Ashford The Mirraculous Dots and Lines 120 Ink on printed paper    1

Will Ashford Art as Compensation Graphite on printed paper     2

I like the way in which he uses his images to highlight certain parts of text and obstruct and obscure others. Really want to have ago at doing something similar with the Borges text.

Kelly Cambell Berry Mayberry's Insects    3

Images by Kelly Campbell Berry: I like the ripping of multiple pages, creating a sculptural object, images of the book coming out and around it's pages. Similar to the works of Su Blackwell  4;

Su Blackwell 2005 The Quiet American   5

Su Blackwell; again turning the book into something more sculptural, and object rather than just text.

Jean Cody  ancient peacock, reproduction printed on 75 year old page from dictionary   6

Although I like the works of Kelly Campbell Berry and Su Blackwell, for this current project i was wanting to create something more on the pages of the book involving the text of each page. I think i prefer works such as Will Ashford's and the above image found on Etsy by Jean Cody.

I've been wanting to experiment with watercolour for a little while now, and this image just makes me want to do so even more. I'm not quite sure how I would translate that to my working with the story of Babel, but this is something that I would like to experiment with.
However, this also comes back to my question of whether i would be working in colour or black and white...

Analu Prestes Paper arts   7

In this image i like how the cut out looks when it is lit up - this gave me the idea of using a pin to create and image with the text on plain white paper and using a similar technique (maybe photograph on a light box?) to create the final image.

1       Ashford, W. n.d. The Miraculous Dots and Lines 120. Ink on Printed paper.  [online] Available at: http://willashford.com/portfolio.html. [Accessed: 19th February 2014]

2      Ashford, W. n.d. Art as Compensation. Graphite on printed paper. [online] Available at at: http://willashford.com/portfolio.html.[Accessed: 19th February 2014]

3  Campbell Berry, K. 2012. Mayberry's Insects. [online] Available at: http://kellycampbellberry.tumblr.com/ [Accessed 19th February 2014]

4  Blackwell, S. 2014 [online] Available at http://www.sublackwell.co.uk/ [Accessed: 19th February 2014]

5  Blackwell, S. 2005. The Quiet American. [online] Available at:  http://www.sublackwell.co.uk/portfolio-book-cut-sculpture/ [Accessed 19th February 2014]

6   Cody, J. 2014. ancient peacock reproduction, printed on to 75 year old dictionary page. [image online] Available at: http://www.etsy.com/listing/52072175/ancient-peacock-reproduction-printed-on?ref=v1_other_2 [Accessed: 19 Feb 2014].

7    Prestes, A. 2011. of paper and things: paper arts | analu prestes. [online] Available at: http://ofpaperandthings.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/paper-arts-analu-prestes.html [Accessed: 19 Feb 2014].