Atlanta artist Brian Dettmer creates memorable works of art by slicing, whittling and tearing into books. Mark Strassmann reports on Dettmer's vision for a vanishing form of art.
they are beautiful...the only sad thing...is making them so high priced....i would love to have one even if i had to give it back after a week...just to see into all the details :) but ill have to wait to see them in a museum...behind glass.....prolly have to pay for that too....this is why such amazing artists make me so sad...
They thought no one would want vinyl records anymore either because the new thing was supposed to be "better". But is it really? There is something real and historic about the real thing. Something that pleases all the senses about the sight and smell and feel and weight of a real book, the sound of turning a page, the sense of accomplishment and progress as you whittle down how many pages are left to go, the excitement or perhaps disappointment at it coming to an end. Things you don't get with digital when it just abruptly ends, in that annoying way some books have a way of ending but leaving so much unanswered. Digital books can be altered worldwide, but without a hard copy of the original, how could anyone ever prove it? I'd love to have world maps through the centuries, not to navigate by, but to see how things changed, how farmland became developed to towns and then cities and perhaps back to nature eventually. Old botanical prints of plants now extinct. Music not played anymore, languages not spoken.
