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So here's one of the things that's been occupying my time.
The German library I volunteer at has many compromised copies of the 1908-1914 bound volumes of the arts magazine the Velhagen-Klasings Monatshefte - people in 1920 or whatever cut out the pictures they liked. So there's piles upon piles of second reich art I've been compiling into furry and transformation art of all stripes, especially since I'm usually alone at the library with nothing better to do. It's taking up a lot of space.
The first sort I've been doing, I'm calling "windows." Or Fenster, as it goes in the Deutsch. I'm using knives to cut designs in stencil style out of this century-old paper. It falls apart in your hands like pringles, it just behaves differently, and it's such fun. And I can pass colored paper behind it and change it however I please, get these bold poster effects.
The first one I posted, I figured, deserves to be a tribute to the late and wonderful
Oannablue. I still miss you, bird. You live on. Apparently you've taken this poor bird's eyes. I've made more than enough for a series, more to come.
Litho reproduction of "The Last Sunbeam" by Professor Paul Hoecker on acid paper, colored paper.
The German library I volunteer at has many compromised copies of the 1908-1914 bound volumes of the arts magazine the Velhagen-Klasings Monatshefte - people in 1920 or whatever cut out the pictures they liked. So there's piles upon piles of second reich art I've been compiling into furry and transformation art of all stripes, especially since I'm usually alone at the library with nothing better to do. It's taking up a lot of space.
The first sort I've been doing, I'm calling "windows." Or Fenster, as it goes in the Deutsch. I'm using knives to cut designs in stencil style out of this century-old paper. It falls apart in your hands like pringles, it just behaves differently, and it's such fun. And I can pass colored paper behind it and change it however I please, get these bold poster effects.
The first one I posted, I figured, deserves to be a tribute to the late and wonderful
Oannablue. I still miss you, bird. You live on. Apparently you've taken this poor bird's eyes. I've made more than enough for a series, more to come.Litho reproduction of "The Last Sunbeam" by Professor Paul Hoecker on acid paper, colored paper.
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I know, that was my first reaction, but these books are literally falling apart. They're like swiss cheese. There's little else they can be used for - and though my German is still medium-level, you see how it's in fraktur? It's page after page of dense-ass fraktur and I'm literally the only person in the entire German-American National Congress Building who can comfortably read it. Everything in Germany used to use that font, until January 1941 when the Nazis asked "Why are the countries we're invading mad at us? It must be because no one can read our font" and declared "Okay, it turns out these letters were invented by Jews [they weren't, for the record] and it's illegal to use them now." You can't make German history up, sometimes. If I gave you this book, which is like four inches thick and two pounds and not unique at all and it's missing half of its images and the paper crumbles under your hands and smells like sawdust and acid and all of the text is not only in a language you can't read but in a font even the speakers of that language can't read, you're gonna go "Wow, you might as well make some art with this before it turns into powder."
Thing is, these are reproductions of fine art. The original artworks are not only intact, but this magazine has complete and undamaged archives in Germany as well as plenty of online reproductions. I know books are sacred, and I'm trying to unlearn it - to make this stuff into art.
I'm also scanning and archiving piles upon piles of excerpts from these magazines. Nothing of VALUE is being lost here.
Plus, there are other factors, like how differently 100-year-old paper breaks apart under the knife, and the fact that I can freely use these for collages and reproduce them professionally because they're old enough to all be public domain.
Thing is, these are reproductions of fine art. The original artworks are not only intact, but this magazine has complete and undamaged archives in Germany as well as plenty of online reproductions. I know books are sacred, and I'm trying to unlearn it - to make this stuff into art.
I'm also scanning and archiving piles upon piles of excerpts from these magazines. Nothing of VALUE is being lost here.
Plus, there are other factors, like how differently 100-year-old paper breaks apart under the knife, and the fact that I can freely use these for collages and reproduce them professionally because they're old enough to all be public domain.
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