Les sculptures de livres de Jacqueline Rush Lee

Jacqueline Rush Lee est une artiste basée à Hawai qui crée des sculptures de livres dans un style artistique varié.

Elle tente de donner une nouvelle vie à de vieux bouquins en travaillant sur la base de leur nature intrinsèque.

Les livres sont en quelques sortes fossilisés par un passage dans un four avant d’être assemblés dans leur nouvelle forme.

Elle explique:

In 1998 I developed a unique, experimental process where books and periodicals were fired in controlled kiln environments with no clay or slip addition. These works culminated in my 2000 thesis exhibition Ex Libris. Utilizing conditions of chance and controlled processes that allowed the hand, water, fire and chemical processes to sculpt books, I was intrigued by how the physical qualities of the books changed state. Each book was unique, revealing a range of surfaces, textures, page striations and subtle colours according to the degree of temperature subjected to. Some were fragile, bloom-like forms or skeletal remains, while others were coral-like, calcified forms with covers that were shell-like in feel with text, cover titles, and book cover colours present in their new, warped state. The books were no longer recognizable in their usual context, but transformed into poetic remnants of their former selves–ephemeral and ghost-like forms; suggesting internal landscapes and a trajectory of time, transformation and memory…Or the implication of scholar’s rocks: at once a profound, simultaneous erosion and preservation of culture.

Après les sculptures de livres de Tomoko Takeda, celles de Jodi Harvey Brown, voici donc dans une technique très différentes les sculptures de livres de Jacqueline Rush Lee, en images:
(Plus de ses créations sur son site web ici)

Toutes les photos: crédits Jacqueline Rush Lee.

Via Bored Panda.

Dans un tout autre style, découvrez également les livres cristallisés de Alexis Arnold.