Disintegration Collaboration

A few of my artist friends have blogged about a collaboration they've joined and I decided I wanted to play, too! The idea sprang from the fertile brain of Seth Apter, a mixed media artist from New York. His blog, The Altered Page, is recording the progress of the collaboration. The idea is pretty simple: gather some stuff together, bind it, and put it outside to disintegrate. I know of a few people who buried their stack, others have hung their bundles from trees. Me? I brought together some of my favorite papers: dictionary pages, lace doilies, sheet music, maps and graphs, telephone pages, ledger paper, pages from a children's book, and an old 1979 newspaper.

I gathered my chosen ephemera into a bundle, wrapped it with some salmon-colored netting I discovered in my stash, then tied the whole affair with wire and added some chain. But it wasn't quite ready for the great outdoors. I snooped around in my basement for some metal-type embellishments (in the hope that they will rust!) and tied them on. Viola! A bundle worthy of disintegration!

Then outside I went, bearing my precious bundle. I found just the right place in a corner of our yard.

On May 1st, the reveal will occur. I'll post photos, for sure.