Double Vision, a Collaborative Altered Book

Late last year, German collage artist Sabine Remy and I completed an altered book project.  The original book was a small book of love poems by Lois Wyse illustrated with soft-focus black & white photographs.  We completely altered her book with a series of hand-cut paper collages, embellished with embroidery and hand-cut lettering, and rubbed gold, bronze and white pigmented wax on many pages.  Most of the original text has been papered over (sorry, Lois!), but a few words remain to form "found" peoms and phrases.  Covers are painted black with collaged paper images.

Where we started...

where we are going.

Double Vision

Sabine Remy (Dusseldorf, Germany) and I frequently collaborate on collage pieces, and we have just finished our first book collaboration, called "Double Vision."

This is a slim little volume of collage and text (8"h x 6.25"w, 28 pgs), which started out as a book of Lois Wyse poetry.  It turned out quite well (she said, modestly); Sabine made a lovely video of the book and you can see the pages turned here.