Extreme Book Sculptures

Post date: Jan 09, 2012 12:10:1 AM

Now I'm not advocating that you go out and start carving up books, but aren't these book sculptures by Guy Laramee breathtaking?

The artist, who has previously worked as a director, composer, singer, painter, maker of musical instruments, and more, writes: "So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are.

See more carved book landscapes at the Colossal art and design blog.