I’m sure many of you recall those novelty books where the pages were slashed into three horizontal sections, and you could combine the resulting dissected images in entertaining ways.
The Alphabet Primer has something of the quality of those books, inasmuch that due to the concertina-construction, the pages can be arranged in unexpected and rewarding combinations. Here the head of John Barleycorn has been grafted to the body of a Griffin to create a hybrid reminiscent of those great winged-bull reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud. Such accidents make displaying the book a lot of fun.
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what clever chance!! amazing…
Ha! Now that is a very cool amalgamation! I have been enjoying all of the alphabet pages!
Also reminds me of the Surrealist party game Exquisite Corpse…
Quite right!
i love that game!! i keep wanting to do one…i’ve only tried it with sentence constructions….
I have never played the game! isn’t that sad? I need to find a way of doing so online, frankly I fear am not that clever.
yes, that is the same fear for me. funny, because it is supposed to knock out such anxieties and be totally ‘subconscious’. ha.
anyway, the written version i’ve played is much easier–you break down the sentence into 5 words: article, noun, verb, article, noun: each person is given one part of speech, supplies their word, and voila, you have a sentence. you can continue on to write a story, but it gets more than a little bizarre. sometimes there are jewels of sentences, though.
sounds great, next time you are in San Diego, swing by and we will play a round (of both versions).
LG
done!
We make one of those strip books at school every year with class 2. They have to think of an alien and create it on a three segmented page then I snip them all and create a bound book. They love it because they have thirty pages split into three sections, keeps them amused for ages.
I am emailing you a photo from a sand festival in Portugal (from 2006 amazingly) of your griffin, and also Gilgamesh fashioned, oddly enough, with a similar beard to the Griffin!
I sense the genesis of another Artlog project!