Collection Rotation: Tammy Fortin – New Covers for Old Classics
September 10, 2012 | ByFiled under: Projects/Series
The return of our regular feature Collection Rotation! Each month someone special organizes a mini exhibition from our collection works online. Today, please welcome (back) writer and rock ‘n’ roll star Tammy Fortin.
Last month I relocated from San Francisco to Lansing, Michigan, for my wife’s job. While she was at work every day, I myself, being unemployed and highly organized, began the slow process of unpacking and putting things away. I started with, arguably, the most important objects in any home, the books. I emptied them all out onto the floor and started stacking them according to subject, and as I was doing this, I began fantasizing new covers for some old classics, sparking an idea for this collection rotation.
I give you:
New Covers for Old Classics (caution: spoilers)
Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
Ernesto Neto, _My Little Castle… Blue (two times for infinity)_, 2005
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Agnes Martin, _Falling Blue_, 1963
Two Serious Ladies, by Jane Bowles
Nan Goldin, _Jimmy Paulette & Misty in a Taxi, NYC_, 1991
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
Vija Celmins, _Untitled (Ocean)_, from the portfolio _Untitled, 1975_, 1975
The Call of the Cthulhu, by H. P. Lovecraft
Bruce Conner, _SOUND OF ONE HAND ANGEL_, 1974
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
Roger M. Parry, _Untitled [Train] from Banalité_, 1929
Tom Friedman, _Untitled_, 1996
Labyrinths, by Jorge Borges
Katharina Fritsch, _Warengestell mit Gehirnen_ (Display Stand with Brains), 1989, 1997
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams
Tina Barney, _Tim, Phil & I_, 1989
La Batarde, by Violette LaDuc
Richard Prince, _Untitled (Three Women with Heads Cast Down)_, 1980
Valis, by Philip K. Dick
Anthony McCall, _You and I, Horizontal_, 2005
Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor
Raymond Saunders, _Beauty as Syntax_, 1992
Ulysses, by James Joyce
John Harding, _Mars Alley, San Francisco_, 1984
Tammy Fortin is a writer and producer living in Lansing, Michigan. She has written for numerous publications and art blogs. Her very first micro-novel will be completed in December 2012.
