Brian Dettmer is an artist who cut books for make art. He has done a lot of works; his first one was “Alternate Route to Knowledge”.
He’s interest in the texture, the text and the images of the book, that’s why he tries to stand out things that he likes, connecting the words with images because when we read our brains create images
He uses a lot of materials, like varnish the outside and then he carve into the surface of the book whatever he find interesting.
He also uses other materials like clamps, ropes, weights for hold things before he varnishes.
He uses a lot of techniques like break out the box of the traditional book, so the book becomes sculptural.
He thinks that people are disturbing by destroying books and they don’t want to throw a book because they considerate a book as living things, as a scale of a body.
Brian considerate a book as a body but also as a tool, as a machine, as technology and as a landscape, that’s why he use materials that remember to a landscape.
He also thinks about the future of the books, what is going to happen with them because now most information is intangible, we can found it in a computer, that’s why is very easy that they start to extinct but he don’t thinks book are going to disappear, in far they are going to evolve and they will become in another form.
Nicole Trumper
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