For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee
has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of
musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his
sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and
structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall,
where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene
mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says:
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.
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.
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