If you look carefully, you will see that the bottom half is an open book, with an illustration on the left and text on the right. The top half are two different pieces. Using various manipulations, I blended common elements, that give it a bit more unity.
The book is an interesting curiosity, that somehow ended up in my collection from previous generations. It is a Russian 1928 edition of Dominion by J F Rutherford ~ early Jehovah Witness proselytizing.
Beautifully bound with an #EmbossedCover, and colour #BookPlate#Illustrations. I’ve been tempted to use it for altered book art, but for now, just scans for collage work.
This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at the 2016 artist edition of THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE by H. P. Lovecraft and Amy Borezo, and meditate on fancy Lovecraftian editions.
We can’t share Eugen Gomringer’s “ping pong” without also sharing the artist book it inspired, a favorite in the Letterform Archive collection. Martha Sophie Burkhardt created this edition of 12 as a Book Art student under professor Sabine Golde at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Germany, in 2018.