Intervention 2 Madeleine Walton 12th - 19th October 2011

Continuing with Lou's theme of removal using the hole-punch as my tool I removed as many 'o' letters and zeros I could find. This was difficult as the hole-punch itself is constraining as it has limited reach into the page. 
After removing as many as I could remove throughout the book I had a huge pile. I then sorted through the words, numbers and letters, remembering that there are two sides to the paper so I always had a choice.I found that I had many full words: 'of','to, 'on' - some thirty of each and I went through the book using my medium glue to stick these over the matching words in the text. 
I also had partial fragments of words 'ould', 'ore', 'ough', 'ener' and found words containing these letters and glued them over.
Then I started altering words, so 'pig' became 'peck', 'sun' became 'sin', 'but' became 'hut' and this in turn completely changed the sense of the text giving sentences like "It shows a sun behind clouds" becomes "it shows a sin behind clouds" and "What needs to be added to Cicero's account" becomes "Salt needs to be added to Cicero's account". 
For the next stage I created new words. "The Age of Reason" became "The Age of Reasone", 'Louvre' became 'Loova', 'Venus' became 'Voyus'.
When I came across 'symobolic images' that Lou had underlined but overlooked I altered those words so they made no sense.
I replaced as many zeros as I could with blanks. I then altered numbers '100' became '1000' etc.
Italian text is used in the book and I substituted Italian words for English and visa versa.
When I finally got to the images in the appendix my own creativity takesover.
As I moved through the book I became less careful with letting the glue dry before turning the page as pages began to get stuck together.

The whole process was obsessive and compulsive. I was continually adding what I had subtracted and in the process leaving my trace. Every page has at least one intervention. The feel of the page is no longer smooth due to my interventions.