Show Your Work: Austin Kleon on the Art of Getting Noticed

Show Your Work: Austin Kleon on the Art of Getting Noticed 



Summarises the idea that by making your work "stealable" and sharing it we all prosper.

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On a Bookshelf

My works, re-printed and added to a concertina

Stephen Sollins' beautiful work

Stephen Sollins Artist New York:  some beautiful works, especially the scotch tape transferred portraits (Last Portraits).
And here are some American Quilts made entirely of paper (mostly envelopes). and more.





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Christmasy: Paper wreaths

The only useful thing in Trash Origami turned out to be the paper wreaths. Here's a few I made a few Christmases ago. I tend to make one thing a million times (and then forget I took the photos).
Enjoy!
most of the paper is from an old book (so these are kinda all altered books!)

Altered: the Book of Other People

I've been looking back into my archives this weekend.
Here is a book I altered in April 2008 while on holiday to New York.

Edition Variee - Paris Pix

I had never made more than one copy of a book, and most of my friends in Sydney BAG were making a series for Book Art Object.

So I had a go. Most of my work is from individual ephemera and recycled bits, so they couldn't be identical.

This is an edition variee. (varied edition, right?) All made with the same techniques, just using a different photo (or different parts of the same photo).

Since all of the photos were printed on my dot matrix it was easy to select ones with the right colurs to go along with each other.

Made from photos of Paris printed after my visit there in 2006 ish. Each is a concertina with a few signatures, stitched together. Then each one has its own little belly band. The interior pages are craft paper and sewing pattern paper. I especially like them all lined up!

I'm not really happy with the end product - next time I do this I will colour / decorate the back of the photograph before making it into a book, because the white on the back of the photo is just wrong. 

The book is about 3cm square on each page, and about 1cm thick.

Completed before I went to France in August 2013.

Gift

completed dec 2013

about 2m x 60cm, collage, ink, acrylic