WHAT IS A BOOK?

Emily An.

Yes, these are books, despite what they seem. They are constructed from Newspaper or magazine pages, and represent just how much of a tree it takes to make just one newspaper or magazine.

Although there is an obvious centre, and in some images a spine is clearly seen, I'm not sure that these 'books' were meant for reading. I don't know about anyone else, but I for one would probably not be able to get the thing back into the bark exterior.

In the image below, the middle 'book' is to represent The Yellow Pages. Look at how much paper that is!


As well as being interesting, and one of the most unique forms of books that I've ever seen, I think that they are very clever. It really hammers it home, to me at least, just how much paper is used to create one publication, that we later throw out.

I've become a bit of a recycling fiend lately anyway.



Su Blackwell.

Blackwell creates scenes from books, by cutting them out and creating 3D models from the pages. It's sort of like a wierd form of pop-up, except I don't think that you can close the books. It's an interesting way of altering a book, however. As we can see in the image below, a scene from Alice Through The Looking Glass has been created, using cut outs from pictures as well as models fashioned from other pages in the books.
And the image below depicts a forest, though this one looks a little flatter than the ATTLG one, for instance there is not chair made from a solid block of paper. These seem to be flat trees pushed up from the pages. No less interesting, however.

It kind of reminds me of that one scene from The Three Musketeers? When Aramis flipped open his bible to reveal a gun hidden in there from the pages being carved out around it? Nifty hiding place.

-HJ x