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Art for Our Sake

What do people do with their old NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICS?

The magazine often inspires exploration-sometimes of the artistic sort.

After member Leigh Lambert of Washington, D.C., reads her GEOGRAPHICS, she rips them up.

"Then I sort the pages according to color," she explains. Leigh cuts the sorted pages into 1/4-inch-wide strips and weaves them into square "color studies" (above).

Esta Lastoria of Plymouth, Massachusetts, combines fragments of photographs to make new images. Her "Infinite Cat" collage (top right) was largely based on an owl photo (May 1970, pages 668-9). The rug under the cat is an aerial photo of a marigold field (August 1968, page 164). "I've been doing this since I was a kid," says Esta.

Savannah, Georgia, artist Elizabeth Cain also rips up her magazines. She never knows what she'll make when starting her freehand cuttings (right) on folded GEOGRAPHIC pages. "I just got back from Germany with some great new sharp scissors," she says—so her studio should be hopping soon.

Quote from Opulence video.