Altered Book

By far this is one of the pieces I am most proud of. I truly broke through my fear walls and played with purpose. I loved the breakthroughs I had making this book and hope to continue making more altered books.

Cherie Smith, Altered Book

The strong reaction I had to the process of creating the altered book took me by surprise. I was a little off balance from the beginning. I also had a strong reaction to using the old images and photographs I had brought with me. Even during the final discussion I resisted the impulse to say that my altered book told a story. I only realized in the quiet of my home that every image that ended up in my altered book was a picture of someone who directly influenced my choice to start a master's program and further my education. So my book is telling a story...it is remembering the guides who have led me down this path thus far.

Altered Book

My book was originally about "Time" which I found very inspiring and interesting. I enjoyed "mining" the book for images and research; I plan to carry on with this theme for quite awhile. Throughout the pages I allowed myself to visually explore this theme through shape, line and color. I am happy with the resolution of most of the pages; they have already informed my subsequent project book. The images below are my favorite spreads.

Altered Book, Nicole Kirkpatrick

My altered book took a completely different look than when I first started. I really didn't have any idea on how to alter a book. I truly struggled with it. I wanted the book to be about the use of pockets and how they are used to hide items. The idea that there are so many secret compartments or pockets and how one becomes quite curious as to want to know what's inside. The issue of trusting others with what one may have as secrets also plays a part in my altered book.

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Images from my altered book.

Christie Knoll, Alter Book Project

I love my Altered book :)

Amelia K.,Alter Book

Altered Book

The Altered Book Project was a project that really got me"out of my box". I have always enjoyed drawing from realism and like nice clean, neat work. This book is not at all like that. I plan to go back and refine a few of the pages and clean them up a little.

The name of the book,

"Good, Clean Violence: A History of College Football" really jump started my brain. Overall I am truly happy with my ideas and I think it was a creative response to the subject of the book, my love of football, and my reaction to being a UGA Alumni and coming to my rival college.

One of the first pages that I felt "worked" is the man with the alligator boots. The red backgroud makes the football player really pop. I thought the alligator boots was a nice comical touch . Further more the size relationship of the boots to the body add more humor and makes the tough football player look a bit goofy.

The cover of the book is a simple stencil of the Georgia G. I may want to add something else to this but I'm not sure yet.

The Florida page is another one I like. I found this really cool image of alligator skin that had a lot of texture in it. The reverse UF was a clever thought by Lauren and of course I had to use it as that is often my attitude when UF kicks UGA's butt's!