Found poem page for anniversary book

Technique Tuesday!

For my page in the Altered Book group anniversary book, I decided to do a found poem.  I’ve got an old novel called My Lady of the Fog (Ralph H Barbour, 1908) and another Russian text called Selected Stories (Daniil Kharms, 1919).  Very different from each other in feel, I decided to use one of the illustrations from Kharms’s book and do a found poem using a page from Barbour’s.

Really, I couldn’t do it the other way around: I can’t read Russian!

Here’s the instructions that I wrote two years ago for using tissue paper as a guide when creating found poems.  The step by step instructions for this new project are also available.