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Morgan Wylie

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My Favorite Book, 2002

My Favorite Book, 2002, Cover
My Favorite Book, 2002, Cover

My Favorite Book, 2002, Page 6
My Favorite Book, 2002, Page 6

My Favorite Book, 2002, Page 8
My Favorite Book, 2002, Page 8

My Favorite Book, 2002, Page 27
My Favorite Book, 2002, Page 27

My Favorite Book, 2002, Page 29
My Favorite Book, 2002, Page 29

My Favorite Book, 2002, Page 33
My Favorite Book, 2002, Page 33


Statement

I love books: the sense of depth, of traveling between the pages, and from cover to cover; the narrative aspects, and the visual opportunities. In "My Favorite Book" I used a found object book and then covered all the pages with an intense visual journey and my own text.

I like the fact that several books were destroyed - including a 60s home economics text book, and an 1890s health manual - in order to bring this new book out. A lot of hours and ModPodge went into this work, and it shows in the way the book can't even be closed: it sits half-open as if the story can't be avoided, it's about to be read, or it's about to be finished.