BOOK OF A BOOK: OPEN CLOUD
This Is A Book Of A Book From The Original Book OPEN CLOUD, An Altered And Unique Artist Bookwork: Oil, Marker, Mixed Media On Found Book, 9 X 18 X Variable", 52 Pp. Book As Object And Art Allows Me To Enhance What Already Exists. I’m Both Playful And Serious When Using Serendipity And Precision In Cutting, Manipulating, Collaging And Painting. This Combines My Love Of Language With Visual And Sensual Art. All The Books I Paint In Are Unique, And Usually Graffitied, Foxed, Water Damaged, Or Otherwise Unwanted.Often The Old Paper, The Smell, And The Description Of Knowledge And Poetry Inspire What I Paint; Inversely What I Paint May Evoke More Writing From Me – Clear, Barely Legible, Asemic, Nonsensical, Thoughtful, Deep. The Book Is Given New Life. Previous Words And Images Peek Through Or Are Covered With Layers Of Paint, Sometimes The Narrative Story Is Overlaid With More Narrative. Each Original Page Is Inclusive To What I Am Painting. It Folds Or Opens Or Lies Flat; Containing A Time Past Below The Surface Of The Present Story I Put Upon It – Each Embellishment Places History Upon History. The Changing Nature Of The Paper And Print Underneath The Paint Is Part Of The Character Of Each Book. Using Paint In Book Form Allows Painting To Be Endless And Sculptural, Is The Book A Painting Or Is The Painting A Book? Each Page Is Only One Aspect Of The Painting, A Mark Or Brushstroke. The Open Book – Sometimes Even The Open And Turnaroundable Book – Creates An Unrestricted And Undefinable “Book”.