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Detail of Louise Seamster’s interactive extra-illustration!

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Pop-up extra-illustration by Louise Seamster (part II)

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Pop-up extra-illustration by my dear artist muse Louise Seamster (part one.)

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Cover detail from A Wrecked Tangle Press

Cover detail from A Wrecked Tangle Press

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Honeycombed by A. L. McFadden and J. Elsaesser of A Wrecked Tangle Press. 

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Thanks to all the friends and family who came out to see The Extra-Illustration Project at PS1 this weekend! And thanks to Small Anchor Press and Ugly Duckling Presse for sharing a table!

Thanks to all the friends and family who came out to see The Extra-Illustration Project at PS1 this weekend! And thanks to Small Anchor Press and Ugly Duckling Presse for sharing a table!

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Detail of collage by Georgie Devereux.

Detail of collage by Georgie Devereux.

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Detail of collage by Georgie Devereux.

Detail of collage by Georgie Devereux.

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Layered collage by Georgie Devereux.

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Detail of Louise Seamster’s interactive extra-illustration!

Pop-up extra-illustration by Louise Seamster (part II)

Pop-up extra-illustration by my dear artist muse Louise Seamster (part one.)

Cover detail from A Wrecked Tangle Press

Cover detail from A Wrecked Tangle Press

Honeycombed by A. L. McFadden and J. Elsaesser of A Wrecked Tangle Press. 

Thanks to all the friends and family who came out to see The Extra-Illustration Project at PS1 this weekend! And thanks to Small Anchor Press and Ugly Duckling Presse for sharing a table!

Thanks to all the friends and family who came out to see The Extra-Illustration Project at PS1 this weekend! And thanks to Small Anchor Press and Ugly Duckling Presse for sharing a table!

Detail of collage by Georgie Devereux.

Detail of collage by Georgie Devereux.

Detail of collage by Georgie Devereux.

Detail of collage by Georgie Devereux.

Layered collage by Georgie Devereux.

About:

"Extra-illustration is the practice of embellishing a text by undoing the binding, adding additional prints, drawings, photographs or articles, and rebinding the new whole; also adding gouache, goldleaf, watercolor, pen or paint illustrations, related or willfully tangential to the text."

After attending an evening lecture by a librarian at the Center for Book Arts in New York, I was inspired to create a small chapbook about the history of extra-illustration--and distribute it to a group of writers, artists, and friends to see how each would visualize the text.

Stay tuned to find out!

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