A heart made of 51 books on love. From the love of Botany to paperbacks with covers of cheesy illustrated chest baring Fabio looking men on top of a mountain with their lover grasping their leg in a torn gown. Those were the books your one Aunt in the family would read one after another.
by paul octavious, via swissmiss.
“thumbprint portrait” by cheryl sorg
(have a look at her etsy shop)
Emilio Isgrò. Comma Virgola (acrylic on canvas on wood; 80 x 60 cm). 2008.
(Comma from “Hamlet” by Shakespeare)
(via Artiscope Contemporary Art Gallery, Brussels)
The Bibliophile (left) and A Man Reading in the Library (right), by Joham Hamza
This is a house made entirely of antique books, mostly English literature published in the United Kingdom. Spines out, pages in, the work is a library turned in on itself, a space of infinite possibility where nothing may be read yet everything imagined. The work has no windows and in the absence of external stimulation, we must imagine the worlds of the books, and hear the voice in our head that talks to us when we read. Books, the stories they tell about the opportunity they offer for escape into other worlds, are a key inspiration for Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.
- via Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
