If you are an admirer of this artist’s work, as I am, you will enjoy watching the videos embedded here.
“My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception.”
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I DO love his work and thank you for these videos! Fascinating!
You’re welcome. I was especially impressed by the way he allows the book to reveal itself as he carves, working with whatever he discovers in the pages.
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