Artist Turns Old Books and Atlases Into Beautiful Works of Art With Intricate Papercutting

Vertebrate Morphology

Library of the Infinitesimally Small and Unimaginably Large is an ongoing project by Barbara Wildenboer in which she alters atlases and old books with intricate cutting to create a beautiful new visual narrative that still contains an underlying theme of the book itself.

The books become both reference and raw material for sculptures, paper installations and digital animation. The books, sentences, words and letters become elements of a new visual narrative in which the old and new forms co-exist. Through the act of altering books and other paper based objects the intention is to draw emphasis to our understanding of history as mediated through text or language and our understanding of the abstract terms of science through metaphor.

Webster’s Dictionary

Las Defensas de las Plantas

Psigologica Biologica

Nil Per Os II

images via Barbara Wildenboer

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