forevever 21, oddly enough

Susan Benarcik

image above from lyonswierortt.com

I just came upon Susan Benarcik's work at the Narrative Thread show at Lyons Wier • Ortt Gallery in Chelsea, NY. The above piece, “Geminiflorous” uses strips of text cut from books to create the amazing hollow orbs, reminiscent of paper-mache-over-ballon craft done in youth. I also found the photos below, from her website here.

(detail from Susan Benarcik's installation piece, "Mental Notes", images from susanbenarcik.com)

Jennifer Khoshbin

Just came upon the artist Jen Khoshbin via her altered music box books. At her website here I also found the amazing book cutouts, one pictured above. She also has an etsy site.

Artists' Books & Their Role in the Libraries of the Future

Link here to my academic website for a paper I wrote for "Information Professions" class titled: Artists' Books & Their Role in the Libraries of the Future.

suspended

From Nic Zwart's Desolation Wilderness blog.

Book as Tool

"A book is a tool, for it is the instrument we make use of in certain cases when we wish to find out what other men have thought and done... It is also true that a tool is a book, the record of past ages of talent engaged in toil."
-D.C. Gilman, 1886

Atelier Bom Design Boeklampens

(image from bomdesign.nl)
"Boeklampen" from the Netherlandish design house, Bom Design.
There are a variety of their book-lamps found here