What Colour is Your World? Artwork

I often visit the West Tisbury Dumptique to find object for my art. During a visit last fall, a woman brought a large box of books to donate, but the staff wouldn’t accept them because many of them had been damaged in a flood. The woman trying to donate them was upset because she didn’t want them to end up in the dump. I had a sudden vision of a piece of Found Object Art made of book spines, as most of the flood damage was at the other end of the books. I offered to take them off her hands and brought the books home and began sawing off the damaged parts and cutting out words and phrases from the spines. I then started matching up words and phrases into thoughts that pleased me, and arranging them into a visually appealing pattern as well, essentially a visual and literary prose statement. I decided to end with the phrases “Green for Health - What Colour is your World?” for several reasons; the link between green lifestyles being healthy lifestyles, with the question to the reader/viewer about what ‘colour’ they see their world in. This is especially relevant as the book “What Colour is your World?” was originally published in the 1960’s and was a book I loved as a child, teaching children to embrace their unique ‘colours’; i.e. that it is ok to be ‘different’.

Mixed Media:Assemblage on Books

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:10 W x 15 H x 2 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.