Mister B. Gone

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GUH! Daily Deviation! Thank you so much, holy crap. This was something pretty amazing to wake-up to. Thanks again ! I have had a lot of comments about seeing more of the book, so I will try to upload more images of it soon. Also, some people seem to be interested in some journals or sketchbooks like this. If you would like to have that, let me know and I'll do it :3. Here is an example of one I made here. I would appreciate critique, since I am still new at this <3.
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Another school project. This assignment was called "Altered Book", where we took a pre-existing book, tore it apart, and rebuild it according to fit a concept. Since the book I altered (Mister B. Gone) was a horror novel about a possessed book, I used that as my concept and decided to make the book actually seem possessed.

I sewed all of the extra pages so that the book has 15 or so spreads, and used the context of those spreads to convey hidden messages within the imagery and text. The outside of the book is wrapped in a sticky black latex material with embellishments to give it an ancient look. I burnt some pages in the book and splashed it with a musky perfume oil for added effect. I didn't feature all of the pages, because they have a 3D element that doesn't translate well photographed.

The last page featured (the one with the mouth) I constructed to have a sound chip between the pages. When that spread opened, the book would scream at the viewer. People in my class got a kick out of that.