The Book Surgeon (15 pieces) Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed. Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms. "My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception," he says. "The richness and depth of the book is universally respected yet often undiscovered as the monopoly of the form and relevance of the information fades over time.
The book’s intended function has decreased and the form remains linear in a non-linear world. Dettmer is originally from Chicago, where he studied at Columbia College. Brian Dettmer's website. Koi_Boy_Goldfish__closeup_by_cypherx.jpg from designzzz.com. 250781d1223342186-leave-jar-dsc00500.jpg from gardenscure.com. A road to somewhere by Giulio.Ercolani. Micahgoularts Journal: If Fire Were Water. Natgeo.jpg from cherrycoloured.com. Paper vs Rock / Funny Pictures / cSlacker.com. Stefano Unterthiner Photography : Animals Face to Face. Colt + Rane Stefano Unterthiner Photography : Animals Face to Face. Disney Dream Portraits: If Celebrities Were Disney Legends. Fullmoonhike.swf from leecasalena.com. 156969_1762167580828_1438257982_1956433_910974_n.jpg from fbcdn.net. 3D Paintings on Panes of Glass.
Using multiple layers of clear glass, Canada based David Spriggs and Chinese born Xia Xiaowan, transform flat artwork into 3D sculptures. Viewers are treated to different shifting perspectives of the works based on where they stand in the art space. Spriggs work revolves around powerful explosive imagery, often resembling storms, cosmic blasts or firework like explosions. Xiawan’s “spatial paintings,” which often feature distorted figures, are drawn individually using colored pencil on tinted glass. Only when these pieces are combined on their floor racks do the images create the whole hologram like effect. See Also INCREDIBLE 3D ILLUSTRATIONS JUMP OUT OF THE SKETCHBOOK For more on David Spriggs see his beautiful website at davidspriggs.com or for more on Xia Xiaowan see Wikipedia Above and Below: Xia Xiaowan’s distorted 3D figures Artist: Xia Xiaowan Below: David Spriggs beautiful paintings fill the room with stormy emotion.
Artist: David Spriggs. Ever-been-so-mad.jpg from funlol.com. Coolest. Stage. Ever. Nov 29, 2010 Check out this incredible floating stage on Lake Constance in Bregenz, Austria. The Bregenzer Festspiele (Bregenz Festival) has become renowned for its unconventional staging of shows. Verdi’s opera, “A Masked Ball” in 1999, featured a giant book being read by a skeleton. A.y.- Quotes in beautiful pics ...oO°