Book carving artistGuy Laraméebids farewell to the printed version of Encyclopedia Britannica with Adieu , a serene pile sculpture made from a 24 - volume readiness .
We have featuredLaramée ’s book carvingsbefore , but Adieu is a particularly interesting body of work give that the Encyclopedia Britannica went out of print in 2012 , becoming an online - only reference . It fit with one of Laramée ’s favorite themes , the eroding of refinement , in which “ finish emerge , become obsolete , and are replace by new ones . ” Onhis creative person ’s affirmation , he say :
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So I carve landscape out of Good Book and I paint romantic landscapes . Mountains of disused knowledge coming back to what they really are : mountains . They erode a bit more and they become hill . Then they flatten and become airfield where plainly nothing is bump . big bucks of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not require to say anything , that which simply IS . Fogs and clouds erase everything we know , everything we think we are .
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