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Book art. January 18th, 2011 Books of Art by Isaac Salazar, a simple idea well executed. found at ffffound.

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Stunning Art Pieces Carved Out of Books: Recycling at its Best!

204.5K Flares Twitter 158 Facebook 18 Google+ 28 StumbleUpon 204.3K Pin It Share 0 10 204.5K Flares × There would be a shelf kept in the corner of your house compiled with many old and untouched books that would have collected dust over them and you would not have even bothered to read them at least once in a blue moon. This is a case with almost everybody. Mountains of Books Become Mountains. I thought I’d seen every type of book carving imaginable, until I ran across these jaw dropping creations by Guy Laramee.

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His works are so sculptural, so movingly natural in their form, they’ve really touched me. His works are inspired by a fascination with so-called progress in society: a thinking which says the book is dead, libraries are obsolete and technology is the only way of the future. His thoughts: “One might say: so what? Do we really believe that “new technologies” will change anything concerning our existential dilemma, our human condition? Book art. (click images for detail) For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer.

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Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. ARTISTAS.