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More 'Altered Books' by Elizabeth Ashcroft
Circlularity Mixed Media Circularity:Side Views Mixed Media Shell Fragment - Totem Series Mixed Media Bookworm Mixed Media
Narrative Flow Mixed Media Travel-The-Narrative Mixed Media Inertia Mixed Media Lagoon Mixed Media
Face Book Mixed Media Fetish Mixed Media Golden Furrows Mixed Media The Book (3) Mixed Media THE.sideview Mixed Media
Gerda Mixed Media Gerda.sideview Mixed Media Note To Self #2 Mixed Media Note To Self #2:sideview Mixed Media
Caffe Greco - Black & White Other Caffe Greco Other Li Po Other
L'Osteria Other Sodini's Other Capp's Pencil
Caffe Trieste Other Kerouac Alley with City lights Bookstore & Vesuvio Other Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store Cafe Other
Molinari's Delicatessan Other Coppola Building with Cafe Zoetrope Other Mama's Other
St. Peter and Paul Other Tosca's Cafe Other Buena Vista Other Golden Boy Pizza Other
City Lights Booksellers and Publishers Other Caffe Greco Pencil Mr. Bings Pencil
Parkview Beauty Salon Pencil North Star Caffe Pencil St. Peters & Paul Pencil The Cinch Pencil
Coppola Building Pencil Mannequins Lament Collage Fallen Halo Acrylic The Letter Acrylic
Three at the Baths II Acrylic Princessa I Acrylic Winged Shadow Acrylic
Reach I Acrylic
Reach II Acrylic Dark Drift Acrylic
Armada I Acrylic Ripples Acrylic Skiffs Acrylic Skiffs II Acrylic
Skiffs III Acrylic
THE Book (2)
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I use books as a platform to explore the boundaries of my visual and philosophical expression - I especially like being able to carve into and out of the form - the words culled from the text become an integral part of the the process - I am drawn to the trans-formative nature of re-presenting the book in a new context.

Carved book with second hand clock mechanism

Some of the materials used in addition to the books themselves: thread, hemp string, mirrors, nails, paper, clock mechanism & second hands, acrylic paint, found images, archival adhesive, acrylic gel and matte medium
 
 
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