Artist Grows Crystals On Discarded Books To Show Their Fragility
People will spout about impermanence of digital records, but books are really fragile, too. Alexis Arnold from San Francisco wanted to illustrate that with her project The Crystallized Book: collecting books and growing Borax crystals on them. Books range from literature classics to magazines, and there’s even a mysterious and arcane tome called “Linux: The Complete Manual”.
“The Crystallized Book Series addresses the materiality of the book versus the text or content of the book, in addition to commenting on the vulnerability of the printed book” Alexis writes on her website. “The crystals remove the text and transform the books into aesthetic, non-functional objects.” She claims to have been inspired by the discarded books she found, the rise of e-books and the shutting down of book stores.
I guess some would argue that many books are aesthetic, non-functional objects, but let’s not go there.
More info: alexisarnold.com (h/t: thisisnthappiness)
All’s Well That Ends Well
Encyclopedia of Superstitions
An Illustrated Handbook of Art History
Wish
The Two Towers
Photoshop Manual
Dictionary of Superstitions
The 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
This is Water
The Last Mohican
The Alchemist Handbook
Lecon Elementaires de Chimie Moderne
Hop on Pop
Linux: The Complete Manual
Flood | World Book Encyclopedia Set 1950 -1987
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Nice Crystal Meth-od
saw someone did this with psychedelic mushrooms several years ago. also he used a bible.