Bookscapes

I came across these images some time before the new year and filed them away to get posted at some later date. Well, the new year has come and I think has been long enough. These are books that have been carved and painted to represent landscapes. These projects are a way of looking at the erosion of our culture. Larmee transforms these former fountains of knowledge back into the land masses from which they sprung. All of this seems to me to be an interesting way of looking at the flux of the world. Larmee's work explores the cyclical nature of the world. It transforms the less accessible media of academic writings into something that, if not seen as beauty by all can be easily read. These images come from his series Biblios and The Great Wall.

This is what the artist had to say about his work:

"So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. 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."

See more of Larmee's work here