Books

I've been making sculptures on books for the Celebrate! show at Studio Place Arts (up during the last half of November and December). I scavenged a sculpture that didn't quite work, and used the people. It's great to have a source of lots of characters and not have to make them all from scratch. And whenever I'm using books, there's always the frisson of feeling transgressive ("What!? You're destroying BOOKS??"), and the same thing is true about destroying a piece I've made and previously exhibited. Exhilarating!

Here's the piece. It was called Conversation.  And now it's been transformed into: