Check Out the Amazing Book Sculptures Meant to Show ‘Erosion of Cultures’
- Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:13pm by
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Guy Laramee has chosen an unusual medium for his sculpting. Laramee sculpts intricate landscapes in books, which when you consider his artist’s statement that “ultimate knowledge could very well be an erosion instead of an accumulation” is a fitting material choice.
GeekOSystem describes Laramee’s work as a “better way to destroy a book than burning it”:
Generally imitating some type of landscape, each piece is extremely detailed, and mighty impressive, not only showing off intricate terrain, but employing lighting effects from outside sources.
Laramee says on his website that he has been practicing for 30 years. In his biography, it states that his work began appearing in galleries around 2004, but as of 2011 he had 15 solo and 20 collective shows of his art. Laramee says in his artist’s statement that the theme of his work for the past 25 years has been “the erosion of cultures – and of ‘cultures’ as a whole”, which hopes will “project us into this thick Cloud of Unknowing.”
Find more of Laramee’s miniature worlds and landscapes here.
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tallMel
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 4:07pmTry doing that with a Kindle !
Report Post »quiltgal
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 1:16pmI don’t usually like alternative art. It often lacks a key ingredient–artistic talent. However these sculptures are unique and very beautiful. Like JQCITIZEN, I would buy this art!
Report Post »quiltgal
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 1:26pmP.S. That said, books seem like precious things to me. So I’d have trouble actually carving into one myself.
Report Post »skiziks20453
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 1:36amproofreaders????????? spell check maybe?? It takes 1 second.
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 2:18amApparently you missed the whole point of the article, seeping from the seams of knowledge, you are eroding away to nothingness. Ironically, the state of mind the artist is point towards. Knowledge is the evil of mankind, it will be our end. Just as Eve partook of the Tree of Knowledge,to be as God, know good from bad. So smart you are to point out the error of another man, so rich is denial that forbids your own conscious from your unconscious… Do yourself a favor, read first the 4 Agreements, the read A New Earth… Maybe then you can live your life freely and peacefully.
Report Post »elihu
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 11:49pmI guess the Blaze Editor had the day off today; even in the headline “sculptures” is spelled “sculputres”! Oh, sorry, maybe they were in the “no child left behind” program…
Report Post »ChevalierdeJohnstone
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 4:14amApparently everyone at The Blaze had the day off; it appears that all or almost all the stories today are by Ms. Klimas. Some bad proofreading mistakes it’s true, but let’s give her a bye for Christmas. At least she was putting some content up!
Report Post »CharlieWalksonWater
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 10:22pmcool
S C U L P U T R E S
iTS even SPelt diffrent.
Report Post »Phoneguy
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:38pmCool and original, I like unique!
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 7:36pmBookworms
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 6:52pmI just hope these were not Classic Books!
Report Post »Poggle The Stick
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:38pmThey looked like old, dusty books to me!
Report Post »machochris
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 6:50pmCan we use the Koran for some of that?
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 7:05pmThen what would we use for emergency wipes?
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 6:19pm‘Check Out the Amazing Book Sculputres Meant to Show ‘Erosion of Cultures’
No! Not ‘Sculputres’—spell check! An editor, a second glance of your copy/paste by a peer, anything. The lowest of the low.
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 7:13pmThe Blaze and Fox are really bad at spelling. Watch the banner on the screen bottom on Fox news, lots of misspelled words.
Report Post »Monkey_Blue
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 11:47pmSeriously…Sculputres? Dear Blaze, if you need a proofreader, I am currently currently seeking employment.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 7:02am@America4Ever – the banner on the bottom of Fox often abbreviates words intentionally. Is that your gripe? The banner is real-time so as to get breaking news out ASAP. As such, it does not go through the rigors of the editorial process, at least that is my perception. (Yes, I know the same news scrolls over and over, so it ceases to be real-time at some point. But, at the time it is posted, it is often real-time.)
I agree I’d like to see TheBlaze.com be more “professional” in its content, in the way of grammar and spelling. I suspect they are doing this on a tight budget and using new / young talent (inexperienced talent).
I’m cutting some slack due to Christmas!
RESTORING LOVE , July 26 27 28 , Dallas, TX
Report Post »http://www.meetup.com/MercuryOneHQ
Do you GBTV?
scuba13
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 6:15pmIf your buddys step sister would stand out on the street corner with the rest of the prostitutes, she could make even more money.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 6:13pmWhat’s a SCULPUTRE, and when will you guys learn to proofread the headlines?
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 7:15pmSeems to happen a lot, maybe they could hire one
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 8:05pmThere should be an option to comment on spelling, typos & grammar (where the comment goes right to the author of the piece). I know that it really irks some commenters to see “spelling Nazi” comments but it really irks me to see blatant errors . . . . Obama for example.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:50pmClick on the authors name at the top of any story. You may email him/her from there.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 6:06pmAnyone remember the guy back in the 60′s who did the tooth pick castles and stuff …I was like 10 when the exhibit came to Evergreen Plaza (evergreen pk il) back in the day …
Report Post »ScratInTheHat
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 6:48pmToothpicks are one thing but one of those books is approaching the rare state. Water & Land by Jacob Abbot was last printed in the 1870s.
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 7:15pmSCRATINTHEHAT Probably all photo shopped.
Report Post »JQCitizen
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:39pmNot quite sure exactly what he is trying to say; – And I don’t know if that is because his Philosophy is confused, or he doesn’t express it well, or if the Blaze author expressed it poorly.
Knowledge is great, as long as it begins with “the Fear of the Lord”. Next best choice would be knowledge that builds upon the benefit of others’ mistakes and avoiding them, even without the such a fear, (or reverence, which is what the phrase REALLY means).
Either way, I think books and the written record are a VALUABLE TOOL for LEARNING FROM CULTURES PAST, so I think ALL book burning, (perhaps with the exception of Pornography) is a mistake. We need to see where human nature has taken us, good and bad,, to benefit from the human experience.
Report Post »JQCitizen
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:49pmGreat artistic talent though. THAT is Art I would buy!
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 6:26pm@JQ
Great artistic talent though. THAT is Art I would buy! Have I got a website for you! http://www.craz.in/WorkAtHome
schroeder123
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:29pmU guys common. Lets do some art work. Bet you can’t do this. ! ?
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:27pmI have a lazier sight light…It can carve on human flesh…… So….?
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:25pmInteresting art and philosophy–I, too, believe education, and being educated, is about the death of absolutism, itself not an absolute because we cannot KNOW absolutism isn’t the case–yet we have no grounds on which to conclude it is LIKELY the case, or even any evidence, other than our own intuitions which can suggest any manner of things, true and false to us, to presuppose absolutism is anything more than a useful fiction.
It’s opposite, nihilism, is also, really not confirmed by experience, yet an undeniable, if not particularly useful, possibility.
The middle way, relativism, seems to be the order of existence–no thing exists without connection; all are wrapped in a web of interconnection, with relations, deterministic and non-deterministic, of dependency/conditionality.
There is no pure vacuum–indeed the idea itself seems to house an internal contradiction that has been explored by philosophy and mathematics alike.
“You can deny the truth, but that doesn’t make it untrue.”
Report Post »–Satan
Black3Actual
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:37pmNo absolutism? Then explain how this statement can be falsified:
“Something either is, or it is not.”
Personally, I think it is the vanity of man that makes us search for some escape from the FACT that there ARE absolutes in this world. That is what the concurrent thought “I think, therefore I am” is all about.
:-)
Report Post »JQCitizen
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:45pmWow! Not sure I understood you either; – I DO believe in absolutes, though; – and the biggest absolute is that Man, in his arrogance, DOES NOT LIKE absolutes!
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:03pmI think you and the artist would make great friends!
Report Post »historyforgotten
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 12:27am@Black3Actual….
Report Post »Something ALWAYS IS.
Nothing NEVER IS.
Their Are No Absolutes. Even in Death, we are Simply ‘Changed’, from one form to the next.
Energy is NEVER DESTROYED. Only Converted.
.
schroeder123
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:24pmand ????
Report Post »BornJewishMuslimByFaith
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:17pmThis is cool.
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 1:28am“I am surprised one of you blazers have not said it looks like something done by a socialist or a marxist or god forbid a liberal.
Morons.”
Well, beings you are writing on TheBlaze yourself, you are the moron.
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