book sculptchah...gettin it yet?

This book sculpture is by Guy Laramee
After spending some time hollowing out a book (now 'Mark's secret book of questionable items') i know how hard it is to have this medium under control because your medium is several undred indivisual pages. and i was only making a hollow box. this guy is making caves, scale replicas of ancient ruins, and natural topography. This artist probably loves to use books because of the philisophical aspect (finding meaning in books, story settings, having a novel 'take you somewhere etc.) but the different pages gives it a texture. It looks similar to mount rushmore or just looking down at the land from an airplane. This texture would have been pretty hard to reproduce in clay or plaster or granite for example because all of those things are smooth. Wood's grain wouldn't have created the same effect either. ...very cool stuff- check out his other pieces in this body of work. here's the link-
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