Covers

The “Covers,” are a vinyl/sound-related subgroup of the “book pictures”: The source material for those finds me in open bookcases, left behind in banana boxes at flea markets, or sitting on windowsills for anyone to take.

The book covers -primarily those of (linen-)bound hardcover copies dropped off there- not only provide me with fine canvas painting surfaces (which would otherwise be expensive to buy) they also often feature small image details or emblems that spontaneously inspire me to reinterpret them; Often, however, it is the printed or embossed book titles that challenge me to appropriation.

Suitable book titles I literally “cover” as my own songs, released, of course, on my Soul Source Records label.

The author or content of the books, by the way, does not matter; it is only their respective visual and literal appearance that offers me a playground for (re)design and transformation -from something that has already been discarded as worthless into a pictorial/artistic (re)creation.