The
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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