Book Sculptor Brian Dettmer
“In this work I begin with an existing book and seal its edges, creating an enclosed vessel full of unearthed potential. I cut into the cover of the book and dissect through it from the front. I work with knives, tweezers and other surgical tools to carve one page at a time, exposing each page while cutting around ideas and images of interest. Nothing inside the books is relocated or implanted, only removed. Images and ideas are revealed to expose a book’s hidden, fragmented memory. The completed pieces expose new relationships of a book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception.”
Richard Wanderman wrote:
Fantastic, love this. Amazing find.
Posted on 05-Sep-07 at 8:06 am | Permalink
randy twaddle wrote:
This amazing work is the three-dimensional equivalent to British Artist, Tom Phillips, project, “A Humument.” which he calls “a treated Victorian novel.” Mr. Phillips draws and paints on the pages to obscure certain letters and words to create a new narrative. What’s most interesting to me about Mr. Dettmer’s process is that it’s totally subtractive. Thanks, Chas for publishing this work.
Posted on 05-Sep-07 at 3:39 pm | Permalink
Sonia wrote:
Just amazing! Great creativity!
Letitia from Freefalling send me here. I am glad she did!
Posted on 05-Sep-07 at 4:29 pm | Permalink
Sonia wrote:
Me again. My blog is Leaves of Grass.
Posted on 05-Sep-07 at 4:31 pm | Permalink
gina kay wrote:
This is amazing. Thanks for posting!
Posted on 06-Sep-07 at 1:07 pm | Permalink
Katelyn wrote:
AWESOME. I want to try to make one.
Posted on 06-Sep-07 at 2:26 pm | Permalink
Karla Michell Garcia wrote:
I love this!! So would this make you a book worm? hehe… awesome work!
Posted on 20-Sep-07 at 6:53 pm | Permalink