Inspire Me Thursday recently had a makeover and is a now a wonderful resource for inspiration for crafting bloggers. This week's prompt is to be inspired by books. I love books! For my direct response to the prompt I started a new altered book. I have a copy of In Other Words (The Journal for Literary Translators) which struck me as ideal material for an altered book. I will work on this slowly and will occasionally post pages. This is the first page. I selected words from the text and then built up a picture around these words. I deliberately kept this simple, largely due to not having time to do anything complicated! It all looks a bit pale in the photo, but i hope you get the idea! The silver circle represents both the moon and the mirror in the selected text. The selected words almost form a poem:
Alone for years translator holds up a mirror many moons ago impenetrable prose light shone into dark meaning opening up. Translator - watcher of the shadow and what it suggests. Meanings hover between words poetry dazzling.
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It is intriguing how poetic the words are.
ReplyDeleteAltered books intrigue me, but I can't bring myself to alter any of mine!
ReplyDeleteThe words you have selected make a wonderful poem
Beautiful poem xxjude x
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