One of the highlights of my summer last year was participating in the annual altered books competition at the Light Street branch of the Enoch Pratt Public Library. I know what you’re thinking: librarians are inviting people to basically destroy … Continue reading 2013 altered book competition…
Update (August 2016): I am excited to say that this book is now in the permanent care of the Goucher College Special Collections. I am so happy to have placed my horseshoe crab somewhere I care about so much — … Continue reading living fossil book…
I know, I can’t quite believe it either. After more than a year of building/writing/sewing, and more than a year before that conceptualizing, I’m finally finished my third and final Tin Drum-inspired poem doll, Oskar. View all three poem dolls … Continue reading tin drum update: the trio is complete…
Our little art group met again recently, and what a fun time we had with this quarter’s theme: Vertigo. We all absolutely love this Hitchcock film, and as expected, it served as a well of inspiration to all. There were … Continue reading tyvek and vertigo…
Sometimes it’s nice to have a good reason to make something. So, when my friend John pointed me in the direction of an artful letters campaign, I knew I had to join in. The purpose is to create artistic letters … Continue reading art-full letters…
For those familiar with The Light Ekphrastic, you know how much I enjoy the process of reacting to someone else’s painting — or words, or song, or anything — and using that interaction to create something new. Recently, a few … Continue reading good morning, my eye…
Normally, I don’t cut up books — I make new ones from scratch. But, when the Light Street Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library announced a “Between the Covers” altered book competition this summer, I knew I had to … Continue reading from one book, another…
I haven’t posted a lot lately because posting usually means I’ve finished a project — or at least come to a nice resting spot. Lately, though, I feel like there’s another element keeping me away from blogging: secrets. Truth is, … Continue reading busy little secrets…
Pop-ups kind of scare me. They never do what I hope they will do, and they tend to want to switch directions on me, mid-cut. To prepare for a class centered around pop-ups last week, I figured I’d better practice … Continue reading pop-up a to z…
There’s something extra exciting about seeing your words in book form. For me, that just as often means painting or embroidering those words as setting them in a traditional typeface. Right now, I’m working on painting the words of my … Continue reading tiny painted words…
Jenny O'Grady 