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GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) book was made from garbage that cycles through my house over a day or two (including the junk that arrives in the mail). The magazine pages and scraps are from magazines I fished out of the dumpster in my building.
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| Cover: Portion of fiber bar box, magazine scraps, junk mailer, nicotine gum plastic packets, nicotine gum foil. The scraps inside the plastic packets rattle around when you shake the book. | 
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| Pages one and two | 
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| Inside of fiber bar box, humming birds from used paper towels, flowers from scraps of pink plastic shopping bag | 
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| Scrap from cereal box, seagulls from junk mailer, magazine scraps, assorted plastic and paper refuse | 
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| Pages three and four | 
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| Inside of cereal box scrap, squares of shiny foil wrapper, "nest" of dryer lint, thread scraps, foil bits and paper refuse | 
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| Magazine page and clippings, used notepaper, return envelope that came with a bill despite the fact I pay that bill electronically, Netflix mailer scraps | 
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| Pages five and six | 
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| Magazine page, birds from foil wrapper containing Trader Joes seaweed, Netflix mailer |  
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| Portion of clear plastic lid, magazine pages | 
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| Pages seven and eight (the wetlands spread) | 
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| Magazine page and scraps, great blue heron from paper grocery bag, grass from green plastic garbage bag, assorted scraps of garbage among the grass | 
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| Fiber bar box, magazine scraps, clapper rail and foil water ripples from seaweed package, grass from green plastic grocery bag, assorted garbage among grass from garbage scraps | 
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| Back cover: inside of fiber bar box, dodo from old train ticket, lettering from magazine, pile of garbage from assorted scraps of refuse | 
 
 
A little bird told me to look at your post today... I wonder which one? this book reminds me of Poe the Crow from Sterling North's book, Rascal. Lovely, edgy, and well done.
ReplyDeleteThanks Vivika - apparently we have birds in common. Don't know the book, I'll search it out.
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