Seven Reasons Why Book Art Makes Me Uncomfortable
That thing you're holding is the paper version of what you can also find online, on a tablet, on your phone, on your computer, through your augmented-reality glasses -- whatever. It's an artform that bibliophiles are doing everything they can to keep together, when what's (scarily) becoming more popular is cutting them apart.
Sure, we get it; A book can make a great base for an art project. And who said a range of media was a bad thing? It's not. But, there's just something about defacing a book that makes that same noise the dentist's scraper does as it trails across an upper molar. Here's why ...
7. Um, you just cut into the cover of that book.
Look, I'm all for books with illustrations. Words and pictures have a long history of communicating and getting along just fine. But you've clearly just messed up the playing field.