Photobucket
Like most other projects, this one is beginning as a huge pile of stuff in my kitchen nook….er…studio. It is blocking my drawing table and my easel, this pile of phone books. It has grown since our original meeting–I pilfered my neighbor’s phonebooks (they’d been on her porch for weeks, wrapped in plastic), and I found a couple more under my kitchen sink, where I’d thrown them 6 months ago with the intent of taking them to the recycle bin. Little did I know I’d need them for an art project!

My next step is to tear them up and re-form them into several canvases, probably using paper mache.  I want to use large enough pieces so that all of the textual information from the phonebooks is still fully legible.  Then I will be doing some illustrative paintings of antiquated phones on the “canvases.”

My biggest challenge with this project is time, but I am sure that the combination of my excitement about it and the fact that I am sick of stepping around the pile will get me motivated to find the time!

–Lea