7d ago

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.

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I mean I love the idea, but the spelling just grates at me. Recognise and traumatise.
- I’m in the states. Those are the British spellings, although I left off a couple of letters in recognize lol.
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.
- 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.