Thought i'd share this artists work with you as i find it utterly amazing. Most of Brian Dettmers current works are created by altering books including old dictionaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, science and engineering books, art books, medical guides, history books, atlases, comic books and also old cassette and vhs tapes.
He seals and cuts into the books with surgeon like precision to expose select images and text to create three dimensional works that reveal a new interpretation of the books original content.
His use of cassettes is what brought him to my attention. He melts and forms them into mainly skeletal forms and he even produced a life size skeleton entirely from tapes. Another of his works that interested me was his use of old gangster movie VHS tapes (The Godfather, Scarface etc) which he unraveled and formed into funeral arrangements.
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