Mess Project #3 - Drips and Splotches (Lilly)

[Note from Lilly - this post and the next are late due to travelling on my part. Apologies - Mess Project #5 should go up on time this Wednesday]

Image shows a spattered, dirty page, with text and images from other pages visible through the paper. Text reads "Drop some kind of coloured liquid (ink, tea, coffee) here from a good height (at least 5 feet)". Additional text at the bottom of the page reads "There is much beauty to be found in drips and splotches"

 Drips and splotches. I considered using ink, but I had coffee to hand, and was more willing to waste it. In retrospect, I sort of wish I'd used ink, because coffee doesn't seem to stain all that heavily. I lay the book on the floor of the bathroom to avoid making a mess of the carpet (I do prefer, however ironically, to keep the mess contained to the book where possible) and threw coffee at it from around head height. I'm five feet tall, or thereabouts, so head height was five feet away from the book.

I used the vacuum in a straw to pick up coffee, releasing my finger from the other end only when the straw was over the book. Three large splatters were enough for me. I enjoyed the way that they feathered at the edges, though like NH, I was a little frustrated by how wet the book became. I've left it propped open to dry out a bit.

Image shows the edge of a large coffee splatter on an off-white page. No text or other images are visible on the page.

This Mess completed by Lilly in San Francisco, California.