Books
Books fascinate me as a material because they function so well as a metaphor for the body. Cutting into these books feels surgical as I open them up, remove what I consider the unnecessary and then glue them back together again. The
small parts that make up a book build on each other to create larger systems, which together form the whole. Letters are put together to create words, strung together to make sentences, arranged into paragraphs to be formed into chapters that become a book. When I cut into the pages of these books the sentences become mangled as words and letters are dissected. By reducing the book to its most basic elements I am reiterating its connection to the imagery I am carving into it. I choose reference books written to educate people about their bodies to create these pieces, but I remove the content of these books and replace it with my own. This subverts the text and highlights the gaps in knowledge that still exist concerning the human body. All the books I use are second hand, and the wear and tear exhibited on them reflects the ravishes of time and the weariness of age.
small parts that make up a book build on each other to create larger systems, which together form the whole. Letters are put together to create words, strung together to make sentences, arranged into paragraphs to be formed into chapters that become a book. When I cut into the pages of these books the sentences become mangled as words and letters are dissected. By reducing the book to its most basic elements I am reiterating its connection to the imagery I am carving into it. I choose reference books written to educate people about their bodies to create these pieces, but I remove the content of these books and replace it with my own. This subverts the text and highlights the gaps in knowledge that still exist concerning the human body. All the books I use are second hand, and the wear and tear exhibited on them reflects the ravishes of time and the weariness of age.
