These are abundant and cheap in the thrift stores. I’m experimenting with decoupage - drowning them in paint, perhaps coating these coasters with a layer of epoxy, collage on canvas.
Thrifting and mutilating the Left Behind series
These are abundant and cheap in the thrift stores. I’m experimenting with decoupage - drowning them in paint, perhaps coating these coasters with a layer of epoxy, collage on canvas.
9 Comments
adhocfungus@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y
I don't understand what those two passages are supposed to represent that is happening now.
I thrift a lot of books for crafts as well. Most recently I made a tiny bookshelf and populated it with thumbprint-sized books. I made those by cutting up the yellowest books real tiny and then rebinding them. Anyway, Goodwill really is full of these books. A couple sets from me, even.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Goodwill wants $3 a book now, unless I go to the outlet (and that’s crowded). Gotta go to the non mega corp places, where books are maybe a quarter. It’s difficult to leave Goodwill with any cool spending less than $15 nowadays, but the smaller places often will mark things like art supplies, frames, and trinkets to a $1 or 0.25.
I’m trying to recontextualize the entire book, cutting out any passages I find interesting. Those wooden bits I think I’m going to make into coasters, the front half of the canvas has a bunch of more Carpathia centered passages, which are more relevant to the modern day.
It’s just funny, I had so many nightmares growing up about needing to stand up to the Antichrist, and even if I’m not really a proper believer anymore it’s difficult to see Trump as anything but.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
That sounds really interesting! Have you shared it here already?
Memnochian@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y
I mean I love the idea, but the spelling just grates at me. Recognise and traumatise.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I’m in the states. Those are the British spellings, although I left off a couple of letters in recognize lol.
Memnoch@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 1y
Fair enough I mean I'm Australian, but yeah I do tend to forget about regional spelling. Still though I love the art form.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Out of curiosity, is this series a thing in Australia? Always been curious if this cancer is unique to the US.
Memnoch@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 1y
Personally I've never seen or heard of it outside of the internet. But I wouldn't put it past our 'red' state, Queensland, to be rife with it. But series? I thought it was just some revelationary bible bullshit? Is it an actual legit book series?
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
It’s an entire multimedia franchise. Twelve books in the main series, a spin off “kids” series, a movie series and a reboot of that movie series (with Nick Cage), even a video game.
They even released a video that has instructions for those “left behind” in the event of the rapture (I have a copy I thrifted for my Christian kitsch collection). Was ridiculously popular in the southern US through the early to mid oughts.