Turn Album Over

Turn Album Over

Original artwork was a collage and illustration on watercolor paper, placka board, and Arches. The wood grain of the guitar is a paper pressure rubbing done from wood where the grain was forced into relief by scrubbing plywood with a wire brush. The details of the bridge and the strings of the guitar were added after the rubbing was done. 

The green objective sections of the illustration are an in depth thought process of music and what music would look like, if a person were to draw what music would look like. 

If the viewer searches the larger green objective section, they can find the title of the piece, “TURN ALBUM OVER.” An experience from vinyl record turntable days. Inevitably, since the vinyl records had two sides, a person would play his or her favorite side first. On most phonographs, one side of an album could play over and over and over again. 

When recalling my experience of the dozens of albums played, on almost all of them, I played the favorite side repeatedly. In a need for variety, the phrase “TURN ALBUM OVER” seems to beg for something new, something different, something that is not familiar. After all, we do get bored with the same thing over and over and over.

So it is with almost every aspect of life. The familiar is a safe place until it becomes boring and a person is consumed by the desire for something new and different. As it is with vinyl records, if you “turn album over” you discover newness that was there all the time. 

Digital Print on Archival Matte – copyright 1980 Tobin Bortner

What you get:
$49 (45.26 + 3.74 tax)
18 x 24 Print Package with Authenticity Sheet
signed and numbered (run of 20)
Free shipping (Domestic Priority Mail $8)