Comments on: Fox in print

Fox in print

MartinWisse — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:13:10 -0800

Nineteen year old Jade Phillips creates images of foxes by marking up pages from old text books and re-assembling them. More of her work is available on Flickr and her own blog.

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:26:20 -0800

Damn, these are good.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:44:09 -0800

Ahh so this is what is meant by 'foxing' of old texts.

By: mazola

mazola — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:50:01 -0800

In other hidden image news, 'Pac-Man' spotted on Saturn's moons. The Pac-Man nonsense overshadows the real story about Mimas: that's no moon, it's a ... no, wait a minute. It's a moon.

By: thelastcamel

thelastcamel — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:50:26 -0800

Super cool!

By: mcstayinskool

mcstayinskool — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:54:38 -0800

Gorgeous

By: jamesonandwater

jamesonandwater — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:10:25 -0800

Oh wow, I love these. Cool post.

By: helmutdog

helmutdog — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:22:43 -0800

There is something very totemic about images of foxes to me. Perhaps because I am Chinese and I was brought up with the notion of Fox Spirits. So there is this feeling of dread - and otherworldliness, mischief, and seduction when I see foxes in art work. Great looking stuff.

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:29:09 -0800

I love these, thanks for posting.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:29:41 -0800

Neat but...why must textbooks be destroyed to make them?

By: rtha

rtha — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:32:11 -0800

Why not? Is there a shortage of old textbooks? These are great. Thanks !

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:40:48 -0800

these are awesome! Neat but...why must textbooks be destroyed to make them? Someone always says this about art made from books.

By: poe

poe — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:47:47 -0800

I was all ready to be like "get your twee bullcrap offa my feed" Then I clicked and was like "holy awesome!"

By: mudpuppie

mudpuppie — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:54:35 -0800

Neat but...why must textbooks be destroyed to make them? You know they go out of date and become obsolete, right? She's recycling.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:01:10 -0800

Very nice! I have only seen foxes in the wild a few times. The first was in my backyard, in the woods, about a year ago. I was doing dishes, and saw something running through the snow through the pine trees. It was a fox, and he was tearing up the snow and playing. Then he stopped and sat, facing me. It was quite a distance, but he was directly facing my kitchen window. Recently, I was standing outside in the yard, before it was so cold. It was dark, but the lights were on across the way. An animal trotted down the dirt road, and at first I thought it was a cat, but the bushy tail and pointy ears said different. I chirped at it anyway, and it stopped, looked at me, then turned around and ran back up the dirt road. My dad used to have a den up in back of his place, and often came home to fox kits playing in his dooryard. Beautiful creatures.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:16:01 -0800

Wow, those are gorgeous.

By: foxhat10

foxhat10 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:37:49 -0800

Very creative and beautiful. Thanks for posting.

By: Alt F4

Alt F4 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:28:17 -0800

The art is nice, but the article is creepy. First off, the "19-year old" point is odd — what significance does that have? (she's legal?) the art isn't so good I couldn't imagine a somewhat-talented teenager making it — and then the author writes, "Through these works and her other collages, you can't help but get a sense for this artists deep thoughtfulness. She describes herself as a vegetarian, ukuleleist, activist, believer, dreamer, sleeper, lover, artist. Sounds like someone good to know." Strange, and a little heebie-jeebie-inducing.

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:08:12 -0800

she's legal? You're the one being creepy.

By: Alt F4

Alt F4 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:18:58 -0800

You're the one being creepy. What justification, then, for including that detail in the article — in fact, in leading off the article with it? Including someone's age is the kind of detail you highlight to suggest precociousness — "she's only 10, but she's programming iPhone apps!"; "he's only 16, but he started an NGO that funded a school in Uganda!" — or to suggest some other, um, anachronisticity — "even though she's a 95-year-old great-grandmother, she's running in this weekend's 5k!". Say the artist were 25. Or 40. Wouldn't it sound strange for the article to lead off with "The images you see here were made by 40 year old Jade Phillips"?

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:25:29 -0800

Foxes are so cute. Making foxes out of books and stuff is cool. I had no idea this kind of art existed. My art-teacher fiancee - who is a hardcore lover of "book art" - will love this.

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:36:13 -0800

Wouldn't it sound strange for the article to lead off with "The images you see here were made by 40 year old Jade Phillips"? I agree that the 19 year old thing was weird. I just thought it was bad writing though and focused on the pictures.