i am a book-a-holic, lover of both the act of reading and the aesthetics of cover and page. i also make art from old books that would have otherwise met their fate in a trashcan. instead, they become pretty pages and persistent projects.Tumblr (3.0; @bookshavepages)http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2mvu5bAQ21qbcporo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://2headedsnake.tumblr.com/post/21273612481">2headedsnake</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a>paulaswisher.com</a></p> <p>Paula Swisher - Implementation</p> </blockquote>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/21273643344http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/21273643344Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:14:09 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw002lqdlF1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>the bond between sound and an idea is radically arbitrary.</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/14020062715http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/14020062715Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:18:20 -0500semioticsbooksart<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv77xfDsvC1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>III</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/13285637193http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/13285637193Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:17:38 -0500booksartbookart<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv77uuQnUt1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I have a few mass market books falling apart, II.</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/13285577288http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/13285577288Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:16:05 -0500bookartartbooks“Two jokes walk into a bar<br/> A cage went in search of a bird. <br/> Three rabbis walk into a penguin. <br/> A boy walks out in the morning with a gun.”<br/><br/> - <em>Robert Hass from the poem “September Notebook: Stories”</em>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/10506364506http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/10506364506Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:37:38 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llcpn9sghj1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I have a few mass market books falling apart.</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/5580325854http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/5580325854Tue, 17 May 2011 13:52:20 -0400poetryrichard wilburpages<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgunzd5A1k1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>instrumental, II. you can hear the fingers on the fret, this time. he says, “baby can’t you read ain’t you heard god is dead and i’m still here—”</p> <p>W.S. Merwin says: “What you do not have you find everywhere”—</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/3376725366http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/3376725366Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:45:00 -0500say no to commasw.s. merwin2006art bookcollagepoem<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfsr9iTNdl1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2996567970http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2996567970Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:27:00 -0500art bookcollagepeace in the middle eastiran<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfsh12dneE1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>blue clouds of hope.</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2993614327http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2993614327Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:46:12 -0500artbookcollagehope<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfdth6cznL1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>First Day of Winter Dream (eclipsed)— written before the title page of A Midsummer Night’s Dream… Shakespeare and sleep.</p> <p>12/21/10 Tuesday</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2858201648http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2858201648Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:51:05 -0500shakespearedreamsartbook<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfc3qeoURw1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“the females are larger, and less colorful.” — is a scientific fact about birds. it’s a refrain in my head a lot, repeating and repeating its song.</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2844407916http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2844407916Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:37:00 -0500birdswomencollage artartbook<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leei0oGbtT1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Page 224-225 of <em>The Principles of Art</em>.</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2567826465http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2567826465Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:07:35 -0500anit-socialdeath to the pixiesartbookcollagesofa<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le7yjj1Qbc1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>birds. page 18 & 19 of <em>The Principles of Art</em>.</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2520598035http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2520598035Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:21:07 -0500birdsbluebirdtropical birdartbookbookscollage<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le7uniZuKM1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Nirvana, something something.</p> <p>Power is a mind game.</p> <p>pages 266-267 of <em>The Principles of Art</em>.</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2519476997http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2519476997Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:57:16 -0500NirvanaCobainartbookcollage artblue<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le7iw5glHd1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I write when I’m sad. I read when I’m happy. (I have recently been “bad” at doing either because I teach, and teaching takes up a lot of my time. But I am learning to juggle the three.)</p> <p>The post-it note is a note to myself about an essay I was writing about Jay-Z and Adorno. The paste job on the righthand-side page is a clip from the beginning of a Robert Frost poem, “Directive”. It’s my favorite poem, ever. </p> <p>I do read when I’m sad and write when I’m happy. It’s just more likely to go this way. From <em>The Principles of Art</em> by Collingswood, pages 202-203. </p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2516343548http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2516343548Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:43:14 -0500writingreadinghappinesssadnesscollage artbookspoetry<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le5br0JA1u1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“to put it into so many words, to define it, was to limit it” -Tom Wolfe</p> <p>page 84-85 of <em>The Principles of Art</em> by R.G. Collingswood, Oxford Publishing: Great Britain, 1964</p> <p>Emerson College Library had “free books” on a cart outside the space occasionally during my tenure there. I picked up this one off of one of those carts; it became my first “artbook”.</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2498643973http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2498643973Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:13:00 -0500tom wolfecollageartbookemerson college library<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldvc8zZ0Qu1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>more art from the intro pages to <em>Midsummer Night’s Dream</em>. pasted here is the back of a photo with some writing and then some writing on the opposite page.</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2427774956http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2427774956Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:48:32 -0500photographart bookpagesshakespearepoetrycollage art<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldudjfSzw71qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>p. xxxii + xxxiii intro to <em>AMND</em> by Shakespeare</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2418178583http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2418178583Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:18:49 -0500say something niceleave me aloneartbookartbookcollage<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldu83lnDhp1qffj6lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>this is my favorite page in my newest artbook endeavor.  it’s pages xviii and xix of the introduction to a beat-up 1909 Gross & Dunlap copy of <em>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</em> by William Shakespeare. most of my posts will be from this book for now. or maybe not.</p>http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2417053439http://bookshavepages.tumblr.com/post/2417053439Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:21:00 -0500booksa midsummer night's dreamintroductioncollagechickendinosaurartbook