The First Date by Daniel Johnson (Inspired By True Events)
Art&books
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2. To create new art, Brian Dettmer trashes old books.
The painter-turned-sculptor takes outdated reference
materials such as textbooks and encyclopedias, seals
them with varnish, then carves away at their pages
with a knife.
Dettmer explores our relationship with information.
He adds no colour or text; it’s all what he calls “a
subtractive sculptural process.” These are some of
the amazing results.
9. “People think that now that we have digital
technology, the book is going to die.”
10. “I think one of the reasons people are
disturbed by destroying books, is that we
think about books as living things.”
11. “I think of my work as almost an archaeology.”
12. “Now that most of our personal and cultural
records are in digital form, it's really allowing
the book to become something new.”
13. After watching Brian Dettmer’s Ted Talk
get into pairs and decide which everyday
objects are on the verge of becoming
obsolete and could be turned into
something else. In what way?