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STONE BUSTS CARVED FROM STACKED BOOKS
While I don't condone harming books in any way, shape or form, this is an interesting way to recycle old books into artwork.
-Editor
Sculptor Long-Bin Chen creates art out of recycled books and magazines; his current show, at Charleston's Halsey, features a series of pieces that appear to be solid sculptures, but which are actually carved stacks of books, painted and surfaced on one side. He has recently completed a set of enormous Buddha heads carved from stacks of phone books.
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Stone busts carved from stacked books
(boingboing.net/2014/06/19/stone-busts-carved-from-stacke.html)
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