I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
— Montesquieu
2011-12-30
2011-12-23
Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee
So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. 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.More »
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2012.01.13 Update: It's Nice That »
2012.01.07 Update: I missed the science fiction aspect of the works the first time, so here it is. »
2011-12-13
Philip Lopate's world of books
"In a throwback to my childhood play with toy soldiers, I now control the movements of nations by dictatorially dispersing their literatures. Having rearranged the globe, hitched Spain to Greece and returned India to England, I am ready to tackle subtler diasporas. My books are distributed not only by nationality but by subject matter and genre, including categories such as movies, poetry, architecture, social science. Delicate decisions must be made."More at Homebodies »
2011-12-07
Li Xiaodong Atelier: Liyuan Library
"Positioned within the small village of Huairou, a two-hour drive away from the urban center of Beijing, China, the 'Liyuan Library' by Chinese practice Li Xiaodong Atelier is encompassed within a mountainous and forested landscape. A five-minute stroll from the village's center, the fully glazed interior contains quiet and contemplative reading spaces and a series of platforms which integrate shelving for books. After analyzing the region's characteristics, an exterior screen clad with ordinary sticks was chosen to conceal the glass faĉade, receding into the surrounding nature without competing with it."
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Update: from Azure Magazine »
Interview with the Book Surgeon
"It works as a landscape but also as an organism, consisting of several singular components making a larger form. I began by bending all of the covers of the books on themselves and gluing them in this way. Then I experimented with the thin, pie like sliver shapes the covers made and realized I could get a radius from setting them onto each other. After connecting them all and sanding down the pages to create a large solid form I had a great block to begin carving. The development of the piece took weeks before I even began to carve. I had no idea where it was going to end up when I began."More »
2011-12-01
November 2011
BOOKS ACQUIRED
BOOKS READ
- The Essential Whitman, Walt Whitman, ed. Galway Kinnell. 2011.11.13
- The Essential Byron, Lord Byron, ed. Paul Muldoon. 2011.11.13
- A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, James Joyce. 2011.11.13
- The Constant Gardener, John Le Carré. 2011.11.13
- The Russia House, John Le Carré. 2011.11.13
- The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco. 2011.11.13
BOOKS READ
- Flashing Swords #5: Demons And Daggers, Ed. Lin Carter, by Roger Zelazny, CJ Cherryh, Diane Duane, Craig Shaw Gardner, Tanith Lee. 2011.11.02
- Figuring It Out, Nuno Crato. ISBN 978-3-642-04832-6. 2011.11.19
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