Disintegration

Seth Apter's disintegration project came to a conclusion on 1 August when there was a reveal of everyone's efforts with their 'disintegrated' bundles. Unfortunately I didn't manage to join in with the reveal at that time and have only now managed to make a start on my piece.

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I previously showed my opened bundles in a post here.

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After a lot of pondering I decided to make use of a child's board book that I had already started altering. So far I have collaged the front cover and one page inside.
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The centrepiece for this page is a photograph which I am really pleased with. The emulsion has been altered by being exposed to the elements and some of it has been transferred to other surfaces which I will use on later pages. Some of the elements of the collage show hardly any alteration other than a little discolouration whereas the key has rusted beautifully (I think it may have been a bit rusty to start with). I am still considering whether to extend some of the lines from the photograph onto the adjoining papers. At the moment I can't decide whether that would be in wax crayon or some other medium.

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The first and only inside page I have completed so far is based on a collage of various papers, doillies and corrugated card which I had already made on the page. I selected a piece of painted tissue from the disintegration bundle which just shows a small change in its appearance where it has acquired a few damp marks. I stamped with a feather on the tissue with indigo (fabric) paint and then with gold. Once dry I glued the paper to the page.

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I have plenty more papers and rusty bits from the bundles so I will continue to add to this book over the coming months and I'm almost certainly going to prepare some more bundles to put outside over the winter for more disintegration.

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While I've been writing this post I've been watching a recording of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. I keep promising myself that we will go one year but we've never made it yet. (Well I am quarter Scots). If you click the YouTube link you'll be able to find more performances from this year's Tattoo. It's giving me ideas for a quilt challenge next year for which the theme is 'Summer in the City'. There is so much colour and music in the tattoo that it may give me a starting point. That is, if my hands will allow me to sew. I had terrible pain problems making the dolls and have had to work on them in short sessions. It's really depressing when fine movement and gripping is so painful. Almost everything I do during the day results in pain in my hands to a greater or lesser extent . I could swear but I'd better not! Oh, go on then! It's a b****r!