Why MYSTERIES? Because that is the genre I read. Why PARADISE? Because that is where I live.
Among other things, this blog, the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution, will act as a record of books that I've read, and random thoughts.
These are amazing. But I'm in two minds about them. They are beautiful and yet they're made by cutting up books! I can't quite accept that. Interestingly neither can Su - here's what she wrote about it herself:
"I think books found me. I used to trawl a great secondhand bookshop in Carlisle, not really knowing what I was looking for. I would buy the books in bulk and some would sit on my bookshelf for a while. The first book I cut I thought ‘should I be doing this?’ There are books that I buy with the intention of cutting and then I can’t." (copied from this article.)
Could I cut a book? Well if I did it would never look like these - so I'm full of admiration.
I've almost started on making a book sculpture a couple of times, but in a fit of guilt couldn't bring myself to deface a book! It doesn't stop me admiring others, though.
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These are amazing. But I'm in two minds about them. They are beautiful and yet they're made by cutting up books! I can't quite accept that. Interestingly neither can Su - here's what she wrote about it herself:
"I think books found me. I used to trawl a great secondhand bookshop in Carlisle, not really knowing what I was looking for. I would buy the books in bulk and some would sit on my bookshelf for a while. The first book I cut I thought ‘should I be doing this?’ There are books that I buy with the intention of cutting and then I can’t." (copied from this article.)
Could I cut a book? Well if I did it would never look like these - so I'm full of admiration.
I've almost started on making a book sculpture a couple of times, but in a fit of guilt couldn't bring myself to deface a book! It doesn't stop me admiring others, though.
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