I always read in the bath, now, being able to read the bath itself, that’s really something!
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How do they keep that waterproof? Also what a terrible use of books!!!
I’m sure the books were destined for the dustbin (at least, I really *hope* so), but it always makes me sad to see them used in art installations like this.
What better way to declare your love for books than by destroying dozens of them?
Indeed. What artists are creating with carved books is impressive, but I really don’t like seeing books torn up like that. Even if I wouldn’t read them.
Reminds me of the pillow filled claw foot we had in my Montessori school classroom. It was the vied after reading/nap spot.
Alternatively, a bathtub that actually is a bookcase would be kind of cool. It would probably be better to use a platform tub and set it into the bookcase. Maybe you could add sliding glass doors to protect the books from water.
Well…now I suppose I can lie down in my very own lie-brary and biblio-take a bath.
Don’t you mean take a biblio-bath? You know, like with Mr. Biblio bath biblios in the pink bottle?
According to the website…
“The idea is of immersing oneself in knowledge, books, truths, and ‘cleaning’ or ‘purifying’ one’s mind with from external, every day life bombarding from media, by reading ad reflecting on books,- ‘pure sources’, which is of course, metaphorical, implying we can become polluted by ideas of truths and knowledge, which we can only ‘clean’ by reading our way through to our own ideas and reflections.”
Damn… artists just think way too hard.
No kidding!
If you want to be an artist, come up with something cool, then complicate it to death with metaphor. And symbolism. And maybe a touch of irony (because by purifying in the traditional sense, with water, one would destroy the metaphorical purifiers, the books).
Apparently it’s contagious.
*troops off to bathe in Listerine*
Hey JMixx! Have I been snoozing or have we not seen you for a while?
Funny thing is, a lot of artists seem to actually DO the hard thinking. But I know in architecture school we learned to just *sound like* we were thinking hard. The art of BSing the profs on critique day was the most important thing one could learn, at least from the artistic angle of design. Not so effective when it came to the engineering side, though. :\
Yeah, a few arch students and plenty of pros actually believe their own press. Maybe that’s why I washed out in the pro area… Not only did I realize the Emperor had no clothes, I didn’t have an issue saying so.
and if you learn to do that kind bsing REALLY well, you turn to writing high-brow literature! (or analyzing it…)
Not *all* artists. Just the pretentious ones.
Hey Fleur, if this really is going to be a daily feature, how about numbering them? Like “And Now For Your Daily Bookcase, Day 4.” Otherwise I think it’s going to get confusing, having a post with the same title every day.
I just realized, the whole idea of this tub could sink if those books happen to be full of plot holes.
But then…you could always add more and more bubble bath and bath beads and fragrant oils…….so……as the plot thickens…so does the water.
I am just picturing paper cuts where no one should ever get paper cuts.