Be You
Little Book of Dictionary
Small Books of Kindness
Category: I
Year: 2019
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Artist: Sara Elgerot
'Be You' is an altered version of the Swedish translation of 'Emily's Book of Strange' by Rob Reger. The original book was discarded by my local library in Stockholm, Sweden.
I've used inkjet on art paper, hand-stamping, hand-drawing, cutting-up/rearranging pages, patterned +black tape, stickers, glue, photo corners.
'Little book of dictionary' is inkjet on art paper + material from left-over book pages, and contains translations of the remaining Swedish text/words.
It's housed in the library book index card-holder, on the back inside cover of 'Be You'.
'Small books of kindness' (9 of them) is made using the endpapers - which was made-up of a pattern of squares with uplifting or ambiguous messages and unclear symbols - and inkjet on art paper + material from left-over book pages.
They contain prompts for the reader to use to look at their own day differently - and hopefully with more kindness :)
They're housed on the back of 'Be You' in a 'magazine rack' made of recycled plastic packaging, stickers and inkjet on left-over art paper.
I've used discarded or left-over material throughout in making the books.
All books have been made to enhance and build on a certain part or aspect of the message of the original book.
The original book asks you to see different, hear different, speak different, think different, be different.
This is my version of doing so - using the constrains of this particular book - and encouraging the reader to do so too, but mainly just to be yourself with kindness.
Year: 2019
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Artist: Sara Elgerot
'Be You' is an altered version of the Swedish translation of 'Emily's Book of Strange' by Rob Reger. The original book was discarded by my local library in Stockholm, Sweden.
I've used inkjet on art paper, hand-stamping, hand-drawing, cutting-up/rearranging pages, patterned +black tape, stickers, glue, photo corners.
'Little book of dictionary' is inkjet on art paper + material from left-over book pages, and contains translations of the remaining Swedish text/words.
It's housed in the library book index card-holder, on the back inside cover of 'Be You'.
'Small books of kindness' (9 of them) is made using the endpapers - which was made-up of a pattern of squares with uplifting or ambiguous messages and unclear symbols - and inkjet on art paper + material from left-over book pages.
They contain prompts for the reader to use to look at their own day differently - and hopefully with more kindness :)
They're housed on the back of 'Be You' in a 'magazine rack' made of recycled plastic packaging, stickers and inkjet on left-over art paper.
I've used discarded or left-over material throughout in making the books.
All books have been made to enhance and build on a certain part or aspect of the message of the original book.
The original book asks you to see different, hear different, speak different, think different, be different.
This is my version of doing so - using the constrains of this particular book - and encouraging the reader to do so too, but mainly just to be yourself with kindness.