Very very funky books

Here's some sculpture that may give the bibliophiles among you a strange feeling.  On one hand, a book, rather than being destroyed, is utterly transformed into a fascinating object that is strangely compelling.  Here's an example, constructed from 3 books, and a link to see more.  The artist, Brian Dettmer, literally carves out the pages leaving text and images to form these very sculptural constructions that basically transform a 2-dimensional medium into something 3-dimensional.  This fellow must have some pretty sharp and pretty fine cutting tools.  Wonder if he's done any botanicals?  HT to Blue Collar Atheist.

3 comments:

  1. Interesting ideas. Amazing to look at an everyday item and see it changed into art. Thanks for sharing this!

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  2. If you wanted a botanical connection, apart from the tree, check the label on the teabag:

    "by leaves we live"

    My new motto.

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