I’m finished!
This past Saturday was my BFA graduate show. I was able to include 6 pieces in the show, including Schematic, Prints, Routine, The New Romance, Origami Twist (see Portfolio section for pictures) and my latest piece entitled Red Letter Cape.
The cape is similar to my novel pieces in that I’m continuing to remove ‘dirty’ words from romance novels. With the cape, however, I took the words and hand-sewed them onto a cape I made with clear thread:
The show went really well, but I’m glad its done. Super stressful trying to wrangle 19 graduates into painting, cleaning, and setting up the school.
I was also part of a show about 6 weeks ago, but I forgot to post about it. It was a music show called I’ve got the music in me. It was pretty interesting & included three of my pieces:
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In Progress
I’ve been working on more books for the New Romance project. I plan on finishing the 10 books in the series I have before April, but alas, I only have 2 completed at the moment.
Here is what my bed usually looks like when I’m working. As I remove the words from the novel I keep them in order of how I took them out:
Once I have a few chapters done, I glue them into the ‘new’ books. These new books are about 6inx4in. I scan the front of the real novel and crop it severely in photoshop. I use the crop as the cover of my new book:
Once I have a book completed, I sew the bind to finish it. Voila!
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