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the crystal world

Scanner collage based on J G Ballard's The Crystal World

The Crystal World belongs to the disaster books, but deals with the most glitteringly glamourous death-of-the-world ever dreamed of. I bought a perspex humming bird at Selfridges last christmas, and couldn't resist putting him on the scanner though I knew he wouldn't scan well.

The colours of the stretchy lizards are a little beefed up, and the entire collage was crystalized using a photoshop filter.

The book is a Panther reprint, a tiny paperback which fits pleasingly into a jacket pocket. The pretty cover drawing is by Richard Whittern.


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