Dada Book

These are a few pages from the Dada book I've been working on. It's made of pages from Real Simple magazine. Some of the images in the magazine are great for collage, but I find the overall tone is pretty insufferable. What better use to put the left-overs to than to rip them up and turn them into a Dada-esque journal?

I had intended to use it mostly for collage, but I've ended up using it for "evening pages." Some of the folks in one of my art groups are working through The Artist's Way. I had planned on working on it with them, but I decided that waking up any earlier than I already do--just to journal--would be cruel and unusual punishment--4am is plenty early enough, thankyouverymuch! So, I've been doing some very quick pages right before I go to bed. I'm finding that it's a nice way to cap off the day--sort of like getting in the last word.

This is a crappy picture, taken with my ubercheap digital camera. The book is small and chunky: 5.5 x 4.5" and about 1" thick. I used a coptic stitch to bind it, which was a bit of a challenge. The clay-coated magazine pages are weak and brittle, so they crack easily. I had to remove a couple of signatures because the holes ripped open as I was sewing the binding. I ended up with 13 signatures of 20 pages each.