ALTERED BOOK: DEMONOLOGY - More from this project on Flickr. Demonology: Text Composite on Flickr. Never attempt to alter a book too fragile to withstand alteration. That’s the first rule of thumb for that art and craft of book alteration, and I broke it. So I fused the pages between sheets of waxed paper and made an accordion book. The original book was a capsule history of world literature published in German in the 1920s and typeset in a fraktur-style font. The poem is original.

ALTERED BOOK: DEMONOLOGY - More from this project on Flickr.

Demonology: Text Composite on Flickr.

Never attempt to alter a book too fragile to withstand alteration. That’s the first rule of thumb for that art and craft of book alteration, and I broke it.

So I fused the pages between sheets of waxed paper and made an accordion book. The original book was a capsule history of world literature published in German in the 1920s and typeset in a fraktur-style font. The poem is original.

ALTERED BOOK: DEMONOLOGY - More from this project on Flickr. Demonology: Image Selection on Flickr. Images in the book are mostly from my self-portrait archive, transferred to the old pages using an inkjet transfer technique where you print onto a non-porous film and rub the wet image onto the paper. It’s messy and smudgy but I like the results.

ALTERED BOOK: DEMONOLOGY - More from this project on Flickr.

Demonology: Image Selection on Flickr.

Images in the book are mostly from my self-portrait archive, transferred to the old pages using an inkjet transfer technique where you print onto a non-porous film and rub the wet image onto the paper. It’s messy and smudgy but I like the results.