Soms kom je dingen tegen op het internet die te mooi zijn om niet te delen. Zo ook het werk van Brian Dettmer die boeken ontleedt en er nieuwe constructies mee maakt. Check ook de video onderaan deze post.

Brian Dettmer, Science in the Twentieth CenturyManual of Practical Anatomy Volume 3Todays WorldGoyaThe Origin of Land FloraThe Household PhysiciansModern Painters (1873)

A History of the Modern WorldBrian Dettmer, World Series

Explanation of Book Dissections

In this work I begin with an existing book and seal its edges, creating an enclosed vessel full of unearthed potential. I cut into the surface of the book and dissect through it from the front. I work with knives, tweezers and surgical tools to carve one page at a time, exposing each layer while cutting around ideas and images of interest. Nothing inside the books is relocated or implanted, only removed. Images and ideas are revealed to expose alternate histories and memories. 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.