This last altered-book project is a three-page spread that takes advantage of the unique construction of the book. This is a large-format picture book with pop-ups and flaps. Only the first few pages of the book were printed; the rest is blank white, still containing the added features. The originating artist found the unprinted book in a second-hand book store for 75 cents and rightly discerned its wealth of potential.
She chose the book's Dia de los Muertos theme. My piece incorporates a facing page (left), the back cover of the book on the inside complete with the nine inset rectangles, and a flap that folds over the back cover interior. This flap has been machine cut to create a "window" of pierced paper in the image of a dragon climbing a flowering tree. My work was simply to decorate and adapt the three-page spread.
The book is about 9 1/2" by 11" by 1 3/4" in size, closed. The left-hand page is completed using laser transfer emulsion, laser print, acrylic paint, stamping and tissue paper. The flap on the right is completed using acrylic paint and tissue paper. The central collection of insets is mixed media and includes a variety of found objects, cloth, acrylic paint, laser transfer, waxed cookie wrappers ("Ines Rosales"), beads and etc.
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