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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 Lee creates sculptures from books, transforming them by using water and other techniques that change the books form, and purpose - into visual conceptual pieces.This really relates to my work.
http://www.jacquelinerushlee.com/images/images.html#
Thomas Allen also works with books, changing their meaning by making them more of a visual object, by cutting out the cover art of certain books and linking the art of several books together to create 3d scenes.
http://www.foleygallery.com/artists/artist_ins.php3?artist=8
Alexander Korzer-Robinson also explores cutting up books in his work, however in a much more intricate way. He takes antique books and goes through every page, cutting out certain illustrations and removing parts, the result is a layered book sculpture made up of the illustrations - again the book is no longer a readable thing but a visual one.
http://www.alexanderkorzerrobinson.co.uk/book-objects-gallery
I also looked at decaying antique books, and when books are purposefully left to decay and change - as in this project byThilo Folkerts and Rodney LaTourelle where books were piled up in a garden space to create an architectural installation which explores decomposition. Some books even began to grow mushrooms. viewers were able to touch and look at the books whilst they were still in their original condition. This relates to my work by looking at the idea of abandoning books or changing their role.
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/08/12/jardin-de-la-connaissance-by-rodney-latourelle-and-100-landschaftsarchitektur/
I also looked at preserving books, and was inspired by this news story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-14897373
I then looked at artists who use ice in their work,
using the ice to melt and reveal things as with MarkCoreth’s melting polar bear piece for WWF
http://www.nextnature.net/2009/12/melting-polar-bear-reveals-a-metal-skeleton/
i also looked at methods of encasing objects in ice
http://www.alcademics.com/2010/09/freezing-objects-in-ice.html
I also looked into Kerem Ozan Bayraktar’s series “Ice cubes” where he used resin to look like ice encasing objects (but as it is resin it will never melt)
http://www.curatedmag.com/news/2011/02/14/kerem-ozan-bayraktars-ice-cubes/