The thrill of creative lerning.
I received a a present of an art book many years ago ever before I entered Art College.
The book was based around the performance based work of the model/artist Veruschka and the photographer/artist Holger Trulzsch. What Trulzsch had done was to paint Veruscha's body in such a way that it disappeared in to the background. This was an elaborate slow painstaking process that was incredibly striking on many different levels. Some times her hair would be hidden behind a thin skull cap, her features masked so that the head when placed between stones on a beach blended perfectly and she became part of the landscape. Her body was painted to take on the characteristics of an old crumbling door, the paint work of a green wooden window frame, a stone wall, a tree trunk the interior of a cave. The book also contained different elements like the image of a man's suit painted on to her body (as seen by many years later by the actress Demi Moore on the cover of Vanity Fair). Well this was a book that opened a creative world for me. It was a mission I was already on but it took me through a whole different continent. I still have this book it's battered and worn but still loved.