Destroy that book!

I was given a very big and very expensive book aboooout... 12?, 15? years ago. It was given to me by a lovely chap who really liked my collage work, saying I would know how to make masterpieces from it. It is, like I say, a very large book, full of full-page, full colour illustrations. See if I can google it...

GREAT ALTARPIECES - Gothic and Renaissance

Can't find a bigger, better pic...

Anyways. It's a stunningly beautiful book, and as such I've been afraid to cut it up! It's a book! I respect books (94% of the time)! It's pricey! It's expensive! It's out of print (as I've just discovered).

Then... it just sat on my bookshelf. Gathering dust. I stopped reading it ages ago. Just a very large object.

Over a decade passes...

Then... a moment of realisation! THIS isn't the ONLY copy of this book in the world! "There are many like it - but this one is mine." My bookshelf may miss out - but not the world. 

DIE BOOK, DIE! 

*ahem!*

So out came the knife, the scissors and the glue. I've been wanting to make some large collages anyway...

And so I present you with the first of many giant altarpiece images re-worked for a new... Millenium? Whatevz. Enjoy.

I know it - and you know it [2019]

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