Altered Books

[Hausamann]

Now and again I like to exercise a different sort of creativity by altering a book's contents.
I found a secondhand book, for a friend, about the life and biology of cats. However, I wanted to change its contents to suit my story about my friend's heroine - Catwoman. She got a good laugh from it all. Here are some sample pages of the book.

 

[MrBungle]

Real cool concept

 

[Triduana]

Very creative!

 

[Hausamann]

Thank you @MrBungle and @Triduana for your support.

 

[Artyczar]

LOVE!!!

 

[Terri]

This is wonderful! Creative and whimsical- I love it!

 

[JStarr]

Well done- great tribute

 

[Hausamann]

Thank you @Artyczar , @Terri , and @JStarr for your responses. It's good to know that others got some pleasure from it.

 

[Bongo]

love this! I'm fond of doing this too. Never done it in a "formal" art way or in a book - but with newspaper, magazine articles, and public signs and notices. Also see people changing letters -a classic one seen a lot is -
"smoking not allowed" - changed to "smoking pot allowed".

 

[Hausamann]

Thanks @Bongo for your support and providing other forms of art.

 

[Flowercat]

Very cool

 

[Hausamann]

Very cool

Thank you @Flowercat

 

[sculptcha]

These are wonderful. Have you seen or read any of Mary Ruefle's work? She alters books in a process she calls "erasure" that is similar to this. It's been a while since I read about it, but she describes it as something of a clairvoyant process. I'm 100% positive that "clairvoyant" is not the term she actually used, but as I remember, she more or less says she is spiritually, or otherwordly, guided. Like, the words call out to her from the page. It all sounds very wishy-washy, but I recommend checking out her work, she's got very nice examples on her website.

Nicely done. Love the red.