Assignment 1

Empty Space I: Books, Paper, Scissors

The task of a book is to ask the reader/viewer to understand and interpret it. Furthermore, the book embodies (it materializes) the author's sensibilities: it contains and/or presents his/her interpretation, conception, or idealization of the world.

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You have been given a book. By means of representation (two and three dimensional), you should dissect, analyze, and explain: making diagrams, mappings, scores, three-dimensional mock-ups, etc. what you consider to be a central condition to it (conceptual, pictorial, formal, organizational, etc.) Using these, you should propose and execute a means of carving the book to reveal your findings and to represent through it.

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The assignment is asking one to find the meaning of the book and by carving into it, creating something that represents this by means of physical materialization. 

Examples were given in class of how to carve into books, however upon searching "carving books" many more examples could be discovered online, mainly by one artist, but other artists have followed a similar route.