Under cover- outside vs inside

This blog was founded for a project in my studies of fashion design in Shenkar College of engineering and design in Israel, for a course called “private collection” - In this course we had to choose a collection that we own and from there we will get the inspiration for the project. As my inspiration, I used my dearest treasure, my book collection.

I have been collecting books ever since I can remember....for me, books have always held the magic key to whatever I couldn't even dream of, from worlds of fantasy, to endless knowledge, discoveries, understanding things differently or just simply sinking into a world within the pages.

One of my biggest loves besides books is traveling the world. The sense of a journey, discovery and adventure is a feeling that I'm addicted to. Of course I collect books everywhere I reach and on trips around the world I always find really incredible pieces that not only provide the inexhaustible inclination of mine to adopt books and nurture my library and my reading materials but they also provide me evidence, which I have at hand, of my experiences and the places I've been at and what I felt. Each book has its own story outside the cover, where it came from and how I lay my hands on it...

And of course it also always makes my backpack so ridiculously heavy (:

I like to choose books by their cover.
 There is something seductive which is embodied in the covers of books. It packs a kind of expectation, you can never really predict with any certainty what hides inside the cover and whether it matches the contents or whether one of them is elevated.

I don't choose covers because they are pretty, I choose them because they are intriguing, fascinating and unique, they give me a certain feeling...then I will open the book somewhere in the middle, take a few minutes, and read a page to check whether my expectations are anchored in reality.

You can never really know what you will find inside. The cover often doesn't necessarily match the content but is simply a gate, inviting us to be seduced and come to discover what's within.

I suppose the worn cliché like "don't judge a book by its cover" is still relevant and alive & kicking in major aspects of my life, of our lives. Everyday, people make assumptions of things based solely on appearance. And every day we find out all over again that the outside doesn't necessarily indicate what you're going to find inside.

source

 Book cover by wikipedia 

בעברית

in english

Rick Genest (born August 7, 1985) is a Canadian model born in Montreal, known as “Zombie Boy”, for having a tattoo of his inside across his entire body.

I think he looks much more interesting with his tattoos, in his “fake cover”, without them he is way less fascinating and attracting, in my opinion...

wish me luck (: