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Destructive Bookworm vrs.

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The concept for Destructive Bookworm came into being as I was purchasing a required textbook.  This textbook had been restructured and placed onto a CD-ROM.  There was no actual book to hold, no pages to thumb through – just this cold, shiny silver disk shrink-wrapped in plastic.  For me it was a tremendous loss – not only of the tactile experience that you receive when you hold a book, but also a visual one as you peruse the images and text.

I began by creating a lithograph, which consisted of a mirrored image of a map to illustrate the way in which I felt – turned around, bewildered, and misplaced.  I then began to alter a discarded textbook by carving a large niche.  In this niche I inserted a CD-ROM drive that I cannibalized from an old computer.  In addition to the drive, I incorporated several other components and wires into other smaller niches.  I shredded the lithographic print I had created and placed them around to give the viewer the feeling that the book was being assimilated into the computer parts. 

After all the computer parts were in I used beeswax and various old papers and fibers to collage the front.  The cover was then sanded, carved into inked, rubbed, inked, and rubbed with a final coat of beeswax.  This created an old leather look to the entire book.

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Rebecca L. Aranyi
Destructive Bookworm vrs.
Private Collection
8" x 10" x 2.5"
2005
Mixed Media

Featured as crossover artist.
Cyr, Gabe.  New Directions in Altered Books.  New York: Lark, 2006.  Print.



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Mixed Media Artist  ::  Art Educator  ::  Contemporary Quilter
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