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Altered book art journal: “Whatever Turns You On”/ “I Can’t Trust a Person Who’s Never Had a Crush on Meryl Streep”
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“Stop asking me why I do things as if I could give you a satisfactory answer”/ “Art as Transformation”
Altered book art journals circa 2018
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“An Epic Trip to French Polynesia”
“Incredibly Strange and Exotic Music”
“How Did You Get into Singing Blues?”
Art journal excerpts, 2018-2020
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Book Sculptures by Allison Glasgow
I am a life-long bookseller and avid reader. I began making these book sculptures when struggling to come up with a gift for my boss, celebrating the ten year anniversary of her bookstore. There was no book I could give her that she hadn’t already discerned, so I decided to take a favorite book of poems and reconfigure it into a tree. Dismantling a book is not done without consciousness. Books are precious items. All the books used in my art have been loved and read, and are chosen because of their particular worth. Taking apart text, line by line, I like to think I am reading these books in a different way. Words take on different meanings when isolated or spun into a physical form. These art pieces are an attempt to read words as objects.
Ready to Ship and Custom Orders in Allison’s Etsy Shop: The Poet Trees
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