The final result/ The happy ending

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." /Stephen King

I'm very happy with the outcome and I hope you will like it too (:

(: The end

Beautiful book art by Georgia Russell

Here are some beautiful book art by Georgia Russell. I would love to own at least one of this wonderful pieces!

Georgia Russell  is a Scottish artist who slashes, cuts and dissects printed matter, transforming books, music scores, maps, newspapers and photographs. Russell has been represented by England & Co since she graduated from the Royal College of Art, and her numerous solo and group exhibitions with the gallery have led to her work being acquired by The Victoria and Albert Museum and lent to exhibitions in museums in Europe, Canada and the USA, most recently to the Museum of Art & Design, New York for Slash: Paper Under the Knife in 2009-10. Russell featured in the England & Co exhibitions Persistent Obsessions and The Map Is Not the Territory Revisited, and with the gallery at the Zoo Art Fair in 2009. Her exhibition at England & Co in May this year: Georgia Russell: Cutting Through Time, was her fifth solo exhibition with the Gallery. She has exhibited recently in Paris, with her work also featured at FIAC at the Grand Palais. 

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For the presentation tomorrow

The final collection- Fashion Illustration

My client board

technical drawing 

My book

Some time ago I made this clay sculpture,  I started it because I wanted to express how I see the concept of book and how i feel about it.

I wanted to show that for me a book is really not a square of printed paper, a book is something flexible, malleable, expressive, dynamic, like a fabric, as you read it is shaped by the person you are.

I left the cover hard and square as in my eyes it's the steady gate into the world of imagination that is held within.

I carved in the clay words and sentence from my favorite books

 and I played with it's form until I felt it got to where the work expresses the feelings that I tried to explain in words...

It's a Book

I wanted to share with you some of the things that stimulate me and give me inspiration along the way...

I want to start with this cute video by Lane Smith, this is a book trailer video for a short animated film based on Lane Smith's 'It's a Book', an adorable picture book for children that celebrates traditional books. 

There is something romantic in books and maybe some people see tham as outdated and outmoded, but between the romantic character and the perishable and morbid nature of tham to me they just always remain  enchanted.

Here's another artist that uses books in his works, he arranges them in space, builds with them architectural sculpture or carving them  to create a whole new shape. His name is Miler Lagos.

Here is a short explanation about his work: 

"Miler Lagos’ sculptural works and interventions invite the viewer to reconsider an object’s material properties. By rendering paper and sculpting foam, Lagos produces objects which appear to be made of solid wood or cast bronze. While his works initially seem to be revisiting disputes between the original and its copy, his choices of material or subject matter often engage with local environmental or specific political concerns.

Lagos has made an extensive body of work by developing a technique of carving piles of compressed paper into singular log-like forms. In El papel aguanta todo (Paper can handle anything), 2008, Lagos incorporates various reference books into this process to create an installation of tree-like sculptures. In each piece the books’ spines and titles are left partially revealed, drawing attention to the physical quality of these specialised texts. On the other hand, the abundance of printed material included in the installation points to the homogenising nature of the books format."

This was taken from The Latin American Art Journal - here

 Interesting detail to me is that he chose in this piece and in other pieces to use the books cover as the structure interior

Almost all the pictures were taken from the artist site 

"One day I found a big book buried deep in the ground"

One day I found a big book buried deep in the ground"

I opened it, but all the pages were blank

and to my surprise, it started writing itself

One day, I found a big book buried deep in the ground

I'm a fountain of blood

In the shape of a girl

You're the bird on the brim

Hypnotised by the Whirl

Drink me, make me feel real

Wet your beak in the stream

Game we're playing is life

Love is a two way dream

Leave me now, return tonight

Tide will show you the way

If you forget my name

You will go astray

Like a killer whale

Trapped in a bay

I'm a path of cinders

Burning under your feet

You're the one who walks me 

I'm your one way street 

I'm a whisper in water

Secret for you to hear

You are the one who grows distant

When I beckon you near

Leave me now, return tonight

The tide will show you the way

If you forget my name

You will go astray

Like a killer whale

Trapped in a bay

I'm a tree that grows hearts

One for each that you take

You're the intruder hand

"I'm the branch that you break

Bjork - Bachelorette/

And here are some gorgeous images I found,amazing pieces of art by the artist  Brian Dettmer , made out of books he carves:

:that's a video explaining how he does his art, very interesting

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7366166n&tag=mncol;lst;1 

A part of my books collection

One of my favorite books is  'Fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen' and on the cover the inscription says:

"Every man I will go with thee and be thy guide

in thy most need to go by thy side"

  'Fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen' 

 Blind willow sleeping woman  by Haruki Murakami

 My favorite book of them all- Alice in wonderland

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Poetical works of Lord Tennyson

Our Tragic Universe  by Scarlett Thomas 

The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas 

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo