Face to Face 2, 2025

“I began working with books as subject and object in 1980, initially through the production of bound suites of drawings, and subsequently through alterations of found printed volumes. The method of my alteration is to tear away portions of pages from the text block, in successively decreasing increments, so as to create a wedge-shaped cross-section. The fragmentary letterforms visible across the field of torn edges are still organized like a page, but this text is now (usually) unreadable. In some altered books, I have placed found objects on top of the torn pages. The residual nature of the objects correlates to the textual residue on which they have been positioned.” – Buzz Spector

The text or image blocks are torn away systematically, with the first leaf completely removed, the last leaf left intact, and all leaves in-between excised in decreasing portions, front to back, to make a diagonal cross-section of the book pages.

Altered found book made from two copies of Ken Ohara, One, Cologne, Germany: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1997, attached at their spines.

2 x 17.5 x 8.75 inches 

Unique