It's hard to believe that these detailed sculptures were once encyclopedias. Interdisciplinary artist Guy Laramee redesigns old volumes of information-heavy books that have descended into obsoleteness, going untouched in this present age of technology, into thoroughly sculpted landscapes.
Two of the artist's series, entitled The Great Wall and Biblios, feature these intricately crafted pieces using old books. Of his material choice and the thought process behind recreating mountains, the artist says:
"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."
Via mymodernmetLabels: art, street art
