Saturday, May 7, 2011

Book sculptures

Click on the image to find out more about Brian Dettmer (the "Book Surgeon"), an artist who takes out-of-date books and crafts them into something like this, using only the illustrations and text that already exist in the book:


Eating a carrot


More of his book sculptures at the link. What he does with them is extraordinary, though I did squirm a little at the thought of old books getting cutting apart, however delicately.