Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Landscapes

My Aunt Nancy clued me in to of the artwork of Guy Laramie. This Montreal artist carves stacks of books to create stunning landscapes. Unbelievable. Though I'm not normally in favor of defacing perfectly good books, this may just be the exception. He says,

"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." 











I love these so much. The first one reminds me of my trip to Peru with my dad. Aren't they something?
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  1. hermosamusicaJanuary 18, 2012 at 8:17 PM

    very strange but cool at the same time. I would have NEVER thought of doing such a thing. I'm not usually aesthetically creative.

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  2. Bess V.January 19, 2012 at 6:01 AM

    Gorgeous. I love the first and last and last and want to meander down that path. I'm obviously a proponent of books and knowledge, but it's true that a lot of the things we think we know become useless.

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