Excerpt 12, from Throwing Stones

Yesterday, I spoke about top panels in my altered books, so today I thought I’d mention bottom panels.?

I am usually inclined to put images and objects that look like they should be long there, on the bottom of a boxed assemblage. They may have a weighty appearance or illustrate a perspective of looking downward or just be a thing that we would expect to see when we look down. This assemblage called for an apropos example of an alligator, an animal whose defining character is hanging low to the ground, belly in the mud. There are also a pair of dice, an object that when not being held and shaken in the hand, are seen after the result of the roll when we look down on them specifically to see the number of pips on the up-facing side.