Welcome to "Altered Book Pages" blog! Here, I'll post my works and doodling on old book pages.
The first post is from "Steam Tables: Vapor, Liquid and Solid Relations."
I
used physics and mathematical information to develop a theory on
relationships. Following the order of a
book from the face page, content, preface, chapter I, II and III and appendix
and so forth, I created a number of different levels of narratives in this
work. Texts on the bottom of each page
flow from page to page, while the imagery of fluids spill over, leak into and
cut through to create another level of narratives. Texts and altered images from two books, "The Dynamics and Thermodynamics of
Compressible Fluid Flow" (1953) and "Mathematical
Theory of Elasticity" (1946), are combined onto pages from "Steam Tables" (1969). It is best to see the whole work as an installation.
Below: texts from one of these pages. Images are at the bottom. Here, I'll post the first four pages.
a relief map of the flow
field in which the vertical elevation is
Measurement
of work
from
condition 1 to condition 2
the
heat “received” by Q,
w=pAc
a more or less
Work.
WORK RECEIVED.
between two
100°F, may be computed
the
amount of heat rejected by
=0.
the shock becomes vanishingly small.
Superposition
(a) and (b),
RECOGNITION
OF WORK
P2-P1= (that is, div F=Ñ2j=0).
F=Ñj
forces are prescribed
P2
is
a perpetual motion machine
The machine
experiences different histories.
between two heat
reservoirs
throat and test section.
EQUALITY OF TEMPERATURE
EQUAL-TEMPERATURE PROCESS. it is useless to speak
of such things
p=p(x,y,
z)
(107)
TEMPERATURE. The concept of inequality