Guy Laramee is not your average, run-of-the-mill carver. He doesn’t carve wood, pumpkins, nor turkeys, no, that’s too mundane for the talented music composer, stage writer, director, and painter. He carves highly detailed landscapes out of old books. Yup. He’s created two series of carved books titled The Great Wall and Biblios. Even though I feel a slight twinge of pain at the thought of destroying books, I gotta admit that these carved books are pretty darn amazing.

        Images via guylaramee.com

    “So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are.”

You can find more photos from this project as well as Laramee’s previous works on his website.

Book ‘em,
Teresa