So I mention this in today’s PDS (not posted yet), but my dad recently visited me for a week because he is about to go into dialysis and will have a hard time traveling after that has begun. If you don’t know, my father and I have PKD (Polycystic Kindey Disease). Its this congenital disease…
“Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.
Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms.
“My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception,” he says.”
