Scrapbooking has caught my attention recently, mainly because of a seminar I’m currently teaching on scrapbooks as literary documents. As a dedicated Ouida fan, I put together an unembellished digital scrapbook fairly early on in the life of my fandom; and later, I created a somewhat traditional “analog” scrapbook assembled from printed newspaper clippings (granted, the clippings came from digital surrogates that were printed with a desktop computer printer). Lately, however, I have been particularly interested in experimenting within the aesthetic confines and visual language of contemporary digital scrapbooking. I am fascinated by the idea of storytelling or even creating an atmospheric sense of cohesiveness with these subtle visual cues. It is a cohesion, it seems, that is dialogically enmeshed with one’s textual formation of the “author function,” the celebrity more than the author herself.
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