Destructive Bookworm vrs.
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.
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.
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.
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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