Altered Book: Flight
I. Daedalus II. Icarus III. Memory of Suns. "It is thanks to the peerless stars/ That flame in the depth of the sky/ That my burned out eyes see/ Only the memories of suns." --Baudelaire, Les Plaintes d'un Icare. May 2009.
Altered Book: Photographie Spirite
An altered book based on 19th-century spirit photography. Includes "spirit" photos, other Victorian images, and the poem "Le Revenant" by Charles Baudelaire. June 2008.
Altered Book: Memorial to my Father
The quote is from Hamlet. Ophelia: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember... I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died: they say he made a good end.--December 2006.
Altered Book: Sanctuary
To create this project, I collaged and painted images on the glued and cut pages of a book of magic tricks.
^Cover
^Page 1: Inner Beauty, Inner Peace
^Page 2: Travel
^Page 3: Gothic
^Page 4: Eve; Italia
^Page 5: Art = True Love
^Page 6: Curiosities
^Page 7: {The Key Page}: Wisdom
^Page 8: L'Amour/La Mort; Fin.
Completed in February 2006.
All images ©2012 by Alice, mephistophelia @ gmail.com