Book Alteration Art

What is a book to me? A book is something that takes you to another world. Something that pushes you and your imaginative mind to the test. A book can allow you to “become” your favorite character. They allow you to tune out all of the negativity of the world and immerse yourself. The book project was SO exciting! For the second project, we destroyed a book of our choice (R.I.P Eragon) and created it into something entirely new. My first choice of book was Twilight because it was something I no longer cared for. I was thinking of drawing portraits of the three main characters, but it was not original enough for me. I then remembered that I had an Eragon book at home. After finding the book so many ideas began to flood my mind. At first, I was heavily against destroying the book, but a few days later I had an awesome idea. I practiced different gluing techniques on the Twilight book and tried to research my ideas. Through experimentation, I found that wetting the clay made it flexible, almost as if I were sculpting. I then broke pieces of glass and mixed it with pigmented glitter and resin so that I could make a crystal cavern inside of the book. I really love how this project came out, and I am positive I will be doing a few more of these.