Artist Inspiration

Rachel Whiteread - Jewish memorial in Vienna

The Jewish memorial is a concrete library made up of row after row of outward facing books. The structure is unique in that the viewer can see the books closed pages instead of the spine of the cover which is how books are normally assembled on library bookcases. Whiteread's initial plan was to make the concrete less porous as she wanted the rain to get in therfore ageing the structure giving it a 'sorry appearance.'

This piece of work influenced my material choice of plaster when casting books as it captures every crease, indentation and individual page edges.

                       

Jacqueline Rush Lee - Endoskeleton 2000

Jacqueline is a Hawaiian artist who uses a vast number of experimental techniques to transform books such as kiln firing which she has perfected and soaking books in water winding them into wheel or square shapes. I alike Jacqueline have an interest in book art. I have used similar processes such as soaking books in water as i am fascinated in the crinkles, and indentations that are revealed when the book is removed from the plaster cast. By soaking old books ive also discovered that the ink bleeds into the plaster so leaves a 'ghost-like' text embedded onto the plaster surface.