Wow! Look at the life emanating from these comic books. The project, called Manga Farming, is brought to us by Tokyo-based artist Koshi Kawach. The installation appeared at the Matsuzakaya department store in Nagoya in 2010.Kawach infuses each comic book with the seeds of Radish sprout, then with a little water and some sun whammo... In her review of the work, Simone Preuss points out that:The idea opens up a whole new range of possibilities for book recycling and indoor farming. Paper is potentially a wonderful fertilizer and planting ground, and according to an USDA study, pulp and paper waste recycling...
Computer Art meets Book Art
There are some books that just stay with you.The latest book to positively haunt me ever since we acquired it is Valerie Hollister's Seven Computer Landscapes. Published in 1993 the book "combines contemporary graphic art drawn on a computer with traditional letterpress printing.""In deliberate anachronism, the nineteenth-century process that has been used to print Seven Computer Landscapes gives each image deep, velvety blacks,...and a slight tactile impression on the page."The resulting almost dot matrix vibe of the drawings transform them into an almost woodcut-like appearance. And how did Hollister, who at the time was doing larger scale realistic paintings, get...
Book Art on Parade in Iowa City
Chicago had its Cows on Parade, Seattle had its Pigs on Parade now Iowa City will soon unveil Book Art on Parade.To celebrate it being named by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) as the third City of Literature in the world, and the only one in the United States, in 2008, Johnson County, Iowa created Book Marks.Book Marks is a public art project that will feature over 60 book-themed statues, each 5-feet by 3 1/2-feet, that will be displayed throughout the county from June through October. As with similar "parades" each sculpture has a sponsor and after...