look at this!

below is a link to tom phillips's book "a humument". it's a victorian novel he altered with drawings while letting certain words remain legible. i was talking to eva about this, and it occured to me it might be useful for all of you to look at it.

http://humument.com/gallery/slideshow.html

this is a really great example of turning a found object into an interesting series of drawings.

along those lines, zak smith did an illustration for every page of thomas pynchon's "gravity's rainbow" (which is like 700 pages long).

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/title.htm

i would consider something like this series of drawings to be in many ways a take on a found object. all of the drawings are directly inspired by a pre-existing work. the website is not ideal, but you can check out some of the drawings.