![]() ![]() She is the author of "Wreck This Journal", "How to be an Explorer of the World" and "Mess: The Manual of Accidents and Mistakes". ![]() Bestselling author Keri Smith is a freelance illustrator by trade, and has illustrated for the "Washington Post", "The New York Times", "Ford Motor Company", "People", "The Body Shop" and "Hallmark". Smith dares readers to drop some kind of coloured liquid (ink, tea, coffee) onto a page from a good height (at least five feet) draw in the dark (or with eyes closed) creatively misspell words paint a picture in a water-based medium (pen, marker, watercolour, etc) and leave it out during a rain or snowstorm and bury this book, then dig it up. Your whole life, youve been taught to avoid making a mess: try to keep everything under control, color inside the lines, make it perfect, and at all costs. A place to lest loose, to trash, to spew, to do the things you are not allowed to do in the real world. Think of it as your own personal rumpus room. Keri Smith's "Mess" asks you to do the opposite of what you have been taught. Your whole life you've been taught to avoid making a mess: try to keep everything under control, colour inside the lines, make it perfect, and at all costs, avoid contact with things that stain. Accidents and Mistakes By Keri Smith Penguin Books Ltd In Mess, Keri Smith, creator of Wreck This Journal, asks readers to explore what it feels like to throw themselves off balance - on purpose. ![]() In "Mess: The Manual of Accidents and Mistakes", Keri Smith, creator of "Wreck This Journal", asks readers to explore what it feels like to throw themselves off balance - on purpose. ![]()
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