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Last year I took a year out from university to study abroad and to travel. I’ve always loved to travel and the year was a really inspiring and freeing experience for me. During travelling I sent a lot of post home from the new places I saw. However, the postcards I found at every destination irked me. They were dull images and photos that most people have seen before, they didn’t express the excitement and happiness I felt during my travels. Therefore over Christmas I started drawing these places as I had seen them: bright, vibrant and colourful.
This was the starting point of my new project, this is my multi layered drawing of Paris. I wanted to create multi layers that could flip away like a children’s book. I wanted to create a sense of movement and the viewers participation in the scene.
Check out all my artwork and crafty developments on my new blog: http://kimsearle.tumblr.com/
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed. Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms.
saw these before, i still think it is awesome!