spine

Spine

Madisen Schorno

          I have always appreciated text on paper and really enjoy spending hours getting lost in a good read.  I chose to take apart a book for this piece and had immediately decided that I wanted to create something that represented part of the human anatomy.

         Once the book was taken apart, the colors of the book made me instantly see a spine.  I have really enjoyed working with the two materials, the hard cover and the aged pages of the book which were able to be altered in the ways I needed them to become what I had in mind.  The pages acting as the vertebrae and the red cover becoming the intervertebral disks and wire was used for the spinal cord. When I first started creating the spine I was just using the pages and the cover of the book but not using anything to separate the two materials.  This was causing the spine to fan out and just make an arc not allowing it to be flexible and curve to its needed form.  Once I realized that I needed another element I decided to use surgical tubing as spacers along the spinal cord.

         I am so intrigued by the human body and alignment of the bones, organs, and muscles.  I am constantly thinking of ways in which I can represent them in my work.  I find it very ironic that a book has a spine and that I decided to create the form of a human spine out of a book.  It was not planned; I made this connection after the work was finished.

disassemble (ˌdɪsəˈsɛmb ə l)
— vb
	( tr ) to take apart (a piece of machinery, etc); dismantle