fifi’s grafitti

scribblings from historic downtown McKinney, Texas: altered art, local color, flora, fauna, cemeteries, irrational commentary, improbable-and-unlikely diy home projects

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Category: altered art - assemblage

altered book - kubla builds his dream dome

27 June, 2007 (10:36) | altered art - assemblage | 1 comment

First spread, wherein Kubla decrees his will…..
I did this spread with a completely different background and ended up ripping out both pages and starting over. I saved a few elements and re-used them and this was the result. I had been trying to duplicate a cool background I saw in one of my art books […]

altered book beginnings

25 June, 2007 (10:24) | altered art - assemblage | No comments

Sometimes it pays to get lost. You think you’re somewhere and then you think you’re not. Then you know you’re not. It can make you nuts, you know? Or it can make you change the way you look at things. That’s what happened when I took a wrong turn yesterday.
I started work on my first […]

my zoological alter ego kicks in

11 June, 2007 (10:01) | altered art - assemblage, nature | No comments

It’s got a stinky name, but this pretty little bug is a good guy to have in your garden….maybe almost as good as ladybugs. I saw a tiny spot of red (less than 1/8 inch) moving among decomposing leaves and clods of mud and was able to get a few shots before I lost it. […]