One Plastic Beach documents how artists Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang find joy in collecting and making beautiful arrangements from pieces of plastic that they collect from Kehoe Beach, California. It piqued my interest because I’m still somewhat haunted by my own discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and have tried to come to terms with it through art myself.
(via Laughing Squid)
Rebound Designs takes old books and turns them into bags. I’m not a handbag user, so in a practical sense they are lost on me, but they are really cool. I took a spin past a couple of the op shops the other day, and came home with a few books to experiment with. Maybe I can make a few Christmas presents this year?
Strange how it feels naughty to rip the pages out, even for books I don’t feel any relationship with. I found four Reader’s Digest condensed book volumes with pretty covers that I don’t feel too bad about remixing. I think they must be in the same series as this one.
I doubt I could have done it to this one. I did get a Dean & Son abridged Pride and Prejudice, with an amusing gaudy cover, but I escape any dilemma because its spine is too thin.
Did you ever do that thing of cutting a secret compartment in the pages of a book? I remember it taking a lot of grunt to cut through all the pages!
