What are you afraid of my love? (2018)
Altered book assemblage
by
Frank Turek
The inside cover is lined with ivory-colored fabric with a red, line-drawn floral pattern. Pasted onto of this is an entire page with a description of how to make a bow and arrow. On top of this page is a tile covered with a section from a painting by Tintoretto of a running woman in a flowing dress. Tucked behind this tile is a sleeve containing a small black-and-white photograph of a woman and a girl standing side by side on a rock wall. Just above this tile is a caption, “Warm Days And Cold Days.” Below this tile, pasted over the bow-and-arrow text is a snippet from an English-language primer, and pasted below that is a set of two Italian postage stamps. A map of the Chesapeake Bay region covers the frame of this piece. The inside of the frame is divided horizontally by a trough which is covered with an etched illustration of a large fly flying above a marsh. The background of the top section is a black-and-white reproduction of a painting of women on a deck by the ocean dressed in early twentieth-century bathing suits. A thin, painted metal rod hangs horizontally across the upper part of this section. Clipped to the rod is a jeweled clasp chain with the other end clasped to an actual bird wing. In the trough are a few small seashells and pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The background of the bottom section of this piece is an etched illustration of a cow skeleton. Glued to the bottom of this section is a grimy perfume bottle topped with a doll’s eyeball. The inside walls of the frame are covered with sections of the same map that covers the outside, except for the top inside panel which is covered with text describing a tumor.
Original book cover title:
Book cover used for this piece: Penrod - His Complete Story by Booth Tarkington
Some elements of this assemblage. Select one to find other altered books with the same.
bathers, black and white photo, bottle, clasp, eyeball, fly, maps, medical illustration, puzzle piece, Renaissance painting, seashell, stamps, starfish, wing