EVACUATE
"I'M NOT LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO SAVE ME, BECAUSE LIFE RAFTS MAY KEEP YOU AFLOAT BUT THEY RARELY GET YOU ANYWHERE AND I HAVE PLACES I WANT TO GO, SO BREAK ME IN TWO PEEL BACK MY RIBCAGE AND COVER EVERY PAGE OF MY HEART WITH LOVE POEMS YOU WILL BURN SOMEDAY.
3164Using 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 Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.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.
SALUTATIONS
