Friday, December 31, 2010

Codex Maleficarum - handmade book

I hadn't mentioned it here, but I spent some time working on a new handmade book.  Completely unrelated to my Alchemical book series, this is called Codex Maleficarum, a work regarding witches and witchcraft.  The title is a reference to earlier books on the subject, including Malleus Maleficarum (from the 15th century) and Compendium Maleficarum (from the 17th).  Continuing in this tradition, I've treated the material similarly by compiling information from other sources and editing it to fit my own beliefs and biases.

The book is 96 pages and hardbound (approximately 11x11 inches).  It includes quite a few original photographs from my series "Earth Magic" (most of which I've not shown publicly yet), along with text and images collected from numerous sources. 

Please forgive the varying quality of these snapshots.

1 comment:

R said...

For some reason this reminded me slightly of a book called the "Codex Seraphinianus" though I'm not entirely sure why.
Would it be possible to get a scan of the image titled "Die Alte" on the left? Is it your own drawing?
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zFzcteZb6BE/TR49qAqbd_I/AAAAAAAAAaM/upwPuYjgLsE/s1600/IMG_4172_0890a.jpg)