In grade school, I had a fairly mean and somewhat useless librarian who would sometimes give us coloring sheets when they ran out of things for us to do. This continued until about 7th grade, maybe even later. As much as it was a preferable activity to "memorizing Dewey Decimal categories" or some such nonsense, it did feel like an insult to our intelligence. So, the only thing that felt appropriate was altering the image with white out and a black pen so what was once a wholesome image of an Easter bunny, was now a bunny with some missing limbs, bones sticking out, scars, a possible robotic eye, and some kind of mystery liquid leaking out of various orifices. Then taking those masterpieces and slipping them back in the pile of coloring sheets in hope that another, hopefully younger student, would discover it when they had exhausted the teacher's list of activities, and that this startling discovery would free them and open their minds to what library time could now be used for. 

​

These C.U.T.S. are an extension of that impulse with the added self-imposed limitation of only collaging existing imagery from coloring books without additional hand drawing (for reasons I am still trying to reckon with).

 

I have only snuck them into an unexpected scenario for a mystery human to discover a few times, but there is always time to do more of that. At different points in my life, I have compiled these into books for sale, but please feel free to print out as many as you want and do what you will with them -share them, color them, cut them up and remix new images, or do something else that only your wonderful brain can think of.