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30 Stunning Landscapes That This Artist Created By Carving And Painting Old Books
If you ever find yourself hoarding old books, this artist might give you an idea of how to transform them into unique artwork.
Artist Guy Laramee creates amazing miniature book landscapes out of old books, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. His series entitled The Great Wall and Biblios represent the degradation of human culture and show glacial landscapes, deep valleys, and plateaus.
"So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes," says the artist on his website. "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."
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TrippyBanana 3 years ago
The unabridged version of a dictionary from. The 20th century. I'd be interested how many of those words are now extinct.
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TrippyBanana 3 years ago
Thats a beautiful zen garden. Wonder if it's Mandarin or Japanese writing.
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Faeth Webb 3 years ago (edited)
I'm really impressed to see mostly positive comments on these entries. Usually any articles about books made into decorations are flooded with people clamoring over each other to say how "horrified" they are to see books "ruined" because they're "extremely avid readers" and just could NEVER. These are cool art pieces made from books with thousands upon thousands of copies. Nothing was destroyed. Nothing was lost. It is okay to make books into something else. Cool art, creators!
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
I'm a book lover. I worked almost my entire life as an bookseller and editor. My collection of books includes many valuable first editions, some of them over 200 years old. And I completely concur. These are marvelous artistic creations sculpted from books that would otherwise been pulped.
Faeth Webb 3 years ago (edited)
I'm really impressed to see mostly positive comments on these entries. Usually any articles about books made into decorations are flooded with people clamoring over each other to say how "horrified" they are to see books "ruined" because they're "extremely avid readers" and just could NEVER. These are cool art pieces made from books with thousands upon thousands of copies. Nothing was destroyed. Nothing was lost. It is okay to make books into something else. Cool art, creators!
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
I'm a book lover. I worked almost my entire life as an bookseller and editor. My collection of books includes many valuable first editions, some of them over 200 years old. And I completely concur. These are marvelous artistic creations sculpted from books that would otherwise been pulped.
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