Apathy

Apathy
9 x 7"
book vandalism
Marius Black
2013

This is one of my first book vandalism artworks. I took this out of a Michelangelo book if you recognize the sketched anatomy. Book vandalism is basically me drawing on book pages, not really to destroy the book, after all there are other copies of it for sure, but instead creating a one of a kind art in exchange of adding a art on the artwork on the page.


On this particular piece I created a man drawing himself, from bones to muscles to skin. As might have Michelangelo might have drawn his works. From the pieces he left off I constructed them like puzzles adding art over art and creating exploding anatomy and characters I see before the page born and seen for the first time.

I mainly used pens and markers on doing so and I tell you its so much fun to do so but you also have to really think about what you put on the page because it has to be something the build upon the artwork already on the book not to destroy it but to recreate it in such a way it is something familiar but entirely different.