Cut text borrowed from David Hume’s “An inquiry concerning human understanding” (1793). Background image is a recycled map with major roads in heavy black line and minor ones with thinner black. Entire map rubbed with black pastel, but the pink lakes and green pastures still show through a bit.
Cut text and background image borrowed from “The teacher’s guide to illustration,” by Franklin Brownell (1861).
Cut text from many different texts assembled for a poem. The background image is a 19th century map of Ptolemaic system.
Jules Breton’s “The life of an artist: art and nature” (1891) redacted into a poem.
Cut-text from an article in a 1902 journal (“House Beautiful”) re-purposed for a poem.
A page of “Entick’s Spelling Dictionary of the English Language” (1831) redacted into a poem.
