From Nancy Bell Scott - Hint - The Other Side

[cheryl penn]

I KNOW altered books - they're my 'thing' - Nancy could not have chosen a better medium to send me.  It is interesting that she imposed collages and asemic writing on pages of pre-written text, torn from their original moorings  - I mean -  this page is already written. It HAD meaning. It was an insular world, a concluded entity. 

And Nancy changed its meaning, its context and made a palimpsest. A palimpsest of thread, text, paint, shapes and asemics. She changed the intrinsic nature of the text. Thats the point of collage - right? To take fragments of a new world and impose them on an old in order to create new textual and visual images?  But, successful work is not fragmented. It is well integrated and co-hesive. It has pleasing composition and successful tonal value - like Nancy's. If I were this author, I would be REALLY pleased that my book came loose from its anchors, was removed from the morass of popular publications, travelled the world and wound finally up as a work of art. 

The Other Side of What? Post Literacy? I'll leave you to decide. thanks Nancy - a FAB for sure :-) X

[De Villo Sloan]

oh my, missed this the first time through. Gorgeous Nancy! The effect with the newspaper page is really interesting. This is definitely visual-verbal work using A LOT of elements.

[cheryl penn]

Hmmm, let me diagnose the collage condition :-) - fragmented, torn, on the wrong page :-)))  X

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Thank you both very much. You did a great post, Cheryl. The "collage condition" -- my doctor will have to hear about this -- I think I have it. :--)

[cheryl penn]

Hey Thom - for sure - this is a wonderful piece -  I need the whole book :-) - but I see its posted in various homes around the world - a postmodern fragmentation - the collage condition :-) X

[Thom Courcelle]

Wow, sweet, Nancy!  And great praise, Cheryl!  I love the prominent, "Oh, that..." in the one collage page! As though the past memory of prior iterations of the palimpsest still forced its way through.  But the newness--the latest layers--the asemics--desperately trying to create a new reality like a salve.  Good gracious... wonderful!