Ellen Golla
Bayside, California, USA
Around the time I started to plan my bookmarks, my local university library discarded several bins full of books.
Being a hoarder who likes to work with recycled materials, I, of course, had to help myself. After I took some
of my new treasures back to the studio it occurred to me: what better way to “infiltrate the library system” than to
return the books to libraries . . . or at least parts of the books. I cut them up into miniature pages that I then
shuffled randomly together. I collated these into pamphlets that I sewed on to recycled cardstock (in keeping
with the theme of reusing materials). The juxtapositions of little excerpts of text and pictures from such a wide
variety of subject matter—outdated psychology, physiology, phlebotomy, mathematics, economics, foreign
languages, etc.—are at turns poetic, humorous, or just entertainingly bizarre.
Zebra Crossing Picture Factory
www.zebracrossing.org
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