This article by Ellen Gruber Garvey on variations in scrapbooking practice (the creation of derivative works, we would call it these days) highlights different treatment of clipped text and images, a subject in which I have a continuing interest. Via a comment on
The Worst Craft Idea Ever, which involves destroying books to make storage; Garvey points out that not everyone thinks it's terrible to repurpose a copy of a text to do something else in the world, though I tend to agree that this is a huge waste of a set of Lemony Snicket books.
While I think that's a particularly silly craft idea, I've seen those "book boxes" before. I think the book boxes themselves are the particularly silly thing, and it's one of those times when (unless you get the books at a garage sale or something), reproducing it at home is almost certainly more expensive.
ReplyDeleteBut there's plenty of transformative uses of print material that I find interesting and worthy of being done.