Deformity

I love deformation. There's beauty in the grotesque, the changing, the removal of the norm. And this book is all about that. Instructions, exhibits, and pieces all seem removed from one another as the piece goes crazier and crazier as I read deeper and deeper.

So, reading this made me think about deformity in collage; not just "marking up" pieces, but taking a page of work and turning it into something else; an accordion, origami, or a paper doll.

The question now I have in my mind is how does this affect the reader and interpretation of the text when you invite your reader to destroy the text? Billy Corrigan, the Smartest Boy on Earth offered readers to cut out the book and make models (but I never did because I paid damn good money, and it would destroy the other panels of the work).