how this book was made


materials:
   
  •     base (book) : Decorative Art 1970s by Charlotte & Peter Fiell                               Hardcover, 7.7 x 10 in., 3.19 lb, 576 pages
    
  •     broken watch with holographic eye inside the face of the watch 

  •     TOILETPAPER MAGAZINE X SELETTI SOAP box

  •     American Spirit Cigerette box from Japan

  •     passport photos of myself

  •     sharpie

  •     glue

  •     x-ray images of my knee taken during my time living in Kassel, Germany

  •     pages from the book The Rainbow Goblins by Ul de Rico

  •     Emergency rescue blanket

  •     blue playing cards 

  •     Polaroid film border

  •     Polaroid film silver plastic packaging

  •     clippings from museum broschure for Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven Retrospective exhibition at Fridericianum, organised in collaboration with M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, and curated by Anders Kreuger

   
begining:

started with
  • Decorative Art 1970s
︎︎︎ tore out all the pages i didn’t like
+    cut out images i liked from the pages i didn’t like
+    cut out images from other books, magazines, and newspapers that i liked
+    collected object in my bedroom that i liked


︎

 started to realize the book is about intuition, trust, imagination,
dreaming, manifesting


started to realize the book was a self portrait of my innerself at the time

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putting together:
started to add collected contents into the book
tore more pages out










COLLAGE BOOK 1