Artist Guy
Laramee creates amazing
miniature book landscapes out of old books,
dictionaries and encyclopedias. His series entitled The Great Wall
and Biblios represent the degradation of human culture and show
glacial landscapes, deep valleys and plateaus.
"So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint
Romantic landscapes," says the artist on
his website. "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."
And what do you do with your old books?
