home   published worksScrapbooks is made in response to Ellen Garvey’s essay “Scissoring and Scrapbooks: 19th Century Reading, Remaking and Recirculating.” The essay retells the practice of scrapbooking as it was performed in the 1800’s. This “domestic” version of publishing, often performed by women or children, involved cutting out lines of text from books or magazines to paste onto new pages, which then became their own scrapbooked stories, knowledges, compositions, or poems. This alternate and independent form of publishing became a practice of knowledge building, using repurposed information to form something new, and cataloging a number of different sources about a specific topic.
          That practice of scrapbooking, as told by Garvey, was emulated in this publication using texts that underpin much of Bovine’s publishing endeavors. PDFs of these texts were printed, lines of text were extracted from their contexts, and then collaged into new compositions—thus forming new ideas and knowledges by integrating separate documents. The lines of text were composed responsively to shapes of neighboring texts, so their new contexts were in many cases, arbitrary. This project is about authorship and recirculation, texts as design tools, a desire to “publish one’s sources” and interact with them in a new way. This study lives in a Risograph-printed foldout, with a printed bibliography of sources that document where the texts were extracted from.
French Construction, 70lb text, Grout Grey
French Pop-tone, 65lb cover, Lemon Drop
Risograph  2-color: Black and Mahogany
Edition of 80