THE EXTRA ILLUSTRATION PROJECT

The Extra-Illustration Project is the brainchild of wonderful poet and delightful human being Elsbeth Pancrazi. It’s an honor to be involved in a project with so many poets, artists, and bookmakers I admire. The site’s “about” page reads:

“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.

Other Poets and Artists involved in this project include:

A Wrecked Tangle Press • Wesley Berg • Emma Bonanomi • Nicole Cooley & Arcadia Hinton-Cooley • Georgie Devereux • Anya Groner • Elizabeth Gross • Kimiko Hahn • Matt Hart & Ken Henson • Matthea Harvey • Friedrich Kerksieck • Liz Kushner • Aiko Masubuchi • Brandon Menke • Sharon Olds • Elsbeth Pancrazi • Ron Pancrazi • Matthew Rohrer • Mary Ruefle • Jeremy Schmall • Jason Schreiber • Louise Seamster • Bianca Stone • Heidi Shira Tannenbaum • Thomas Wendel • Marianna Hane Wiles • Elizabeth Zechel

To check out the full project, click HERE

 

MY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATION :: A BRIEF STORY OF LUST with a librarian

These clippings are from the Emily Dickenson’s garden outside her home in Amherst