Tuesday, March 27, 2012

You Think you Have Books?!


These amazing sculptures? instillations? artworks? come from Spain and the creative mind of Alicia Martin.


Here's the artist inside one of her creations, showing the steel and wire frame that provides the substrata for her fountains, waves and waterfalls of books.


Have you ever wondered what to do with that old encyclopaedia and those Reader's Digest condensed books that even your local library doesn't want? Now you know!

They are installed in several different venues throughout Spain and attract a lot of attention and not just from bibliophiles!


2 comments:

  1. Okay.

    I never though books would scare me, but this is horrifying!!

    (probably because I want to climb it like a tree)

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  2. Chris - They remind me of what the contents of the bookdrop at the library looks like after a three day weekend!
    Erin

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