Here it is, the KMJ, created over the Spring of this year when, suddenly, out of the blue, I was gripped by the idea of altering another book. The last one sold very quickly but during the current cost of art crisis it's unlikely that this one will. Still, as John Ruskin said: 'A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.'
Early on I decided that painting black acrylic on the pages would be a unifying theme. Once that was settled, I naturally included collages and print. When I alter a book it's a form of creative cannibalism since all the images and texts are from the original book, which doesn't eat itself so much as I force feed it. It's partly a homage to the book and partly a form of destruction or, more accurately, deconstruction and recreation. I like it to be ragged around the edges so some shreds and threads where pages have been torn out remain as evidence of the process.
On some pages I blacked out all but the chosen fragments of text and elsewhere pasted on fragments cut from other pages. Because it's a recreation rather than a book with added elements, visual themes emerge; in this case, journalism, although much of what the remaining texts 'say' is related to life in general.
The PDF is available to download here.
Potential buyers, please contact me at rtomens(at)gmail.com
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