January 2012
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Evaluation
I have now set up my final piece, after testing out cool boxes and mini fridges I finally decided to use a table top freezer as that really is the only way to keep the books in their icy state for as long as necessary. I placed the freezer on a table with a sofa facing it so that people could sit and read the books if they choose. I also put down a rug so that when people read the books and the...
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Research for Display Methods
Planning the way I am going to display my frozen books I have research the display of books, such as Traditional library settings and book shelves.
I have also looked into unique shelves created by artists and designers such as these
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/04/customized-book-side-tables/
http://ricochetstudio.blogspot.com/2008/05/shelf-clamp.html
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Contextual References
These are some of the artists and projects I have researched throughout my project that link to or have influenced my book experiments and final piece:
As previously stated in my blog I began by looking at fossilization and petrification, and artist Jacek Tylicki and Diana Bell.
I then explored appropriation artists, and in particular artists who use and change books such as:
Jaqueline Rush...
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The anti-Library →
This project was suggested to me by a tutor, it really relates to my work as it is looking at creating a collection of unread books. Its a really interesting piece and way of using the books people haven’t read. This really relates to my project because I have decided to use unread books, books from myself and friends that we have bought but never read.
December 2011
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Diana Bell →
I have been inspired by the work of Diana Bell, her public sculptures made from bronze and cast from real books really interest me, as they represent what I am exploring in my project - the idea of making a book into something visually interesting even when it physically cannot be read,which is the usual purpose of a book. See her pieces Knowledge and understanding and seat of learning.
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aprettybook.com →
A great general book blog, and I particularly like this post because of the way the spines of the books have decayed and worn away, and been untouched for years.
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Jacek Tylicki, Natural Art →
Beginning in 1973 Tylicki sends sheets of canvas or paper into the wind, the rivers or the forests, and leaves them for a long while in a natural environment, thus forcing upon Nature an attitude previously reserved to the artist: the creation of forms.
Mother Shiptons petrifying well
This is my inspiration for exploring fossilizing books, the water from the well has unusually high mineral content, meaning if an object if placed there within a matter of months the object begins to get a stone like exterior, after a few years the objects gradually become completely petrified, and become a part of the stone of the well. http://www.mothershiptonscave.com/the_petrifying_well.htm
“Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling. Without a human...”
– The Book Of Lost Things by John Connolly