Tuesday, September 20, 2011

What You Can Do With a Book (besides read it)

Someone passed this on to me and I was so in awe, I thought I'd pass it on to you.

Someone out there is making sculptures out of books. They are then left, anonymously, at libraries as a gift.



Mysterious paper sculptures

They are left with beautiful tags that say things like,

It started with your name @byleaveswelive and became a tree.… ... We know that a library is so much more than a building full of books… a book is so much more than pages full of words.… This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas….. a gesture (poetic maybe?)

And there's this one:



Mysterious paper sculptures

There are lots more. A veritable literary/artistic mystery. My favorite is the tea cup with the tea bag and cupcake.

Go see them here. Be touched. Be awed.

7 comments:

  1. Those are amazing. The question is would you want to know who the sculptor is?

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  2. Wow! That's just too amazing!! What incredible talent. I love the mystery!

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  3. Beautiful! I love that the creator chooses to remain anonymous.

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  4. Wow! Stuff like this always intrigues me! Thanks for sharing!

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  5. Oh wow! Incredible stuff! I love this kind of sharing with the world...doing your art for love of others, sharing that art, and not expecting anything in return. Beautiful.

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  6. Wow. Those are amazing. Those who do these things just 'cause they love to inspire me. I'm much too result oriented but learning to let go. Thanks for sharing.

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