Wonderful book sculptures
In spite of the fact that few individuals would believe a book to be a piece of artwork in and of itself, the elegance of written language is frequently preserved inside the pages of a book. Stephen Doyle, a graphic artist, meanwhile, sees every book as a distinct canvas that can be explored both visually and textually. Words can leap off the page in Doyle’s Hypertexts, a collection of elaborately manipulated book artworks that give the term “play on words” a completely new meaning.
My Modern Met quotes Doyle as saying, “I adore language—and languages.” “Trying to reconstruct books after cutting them apart is not precisely a logical task. Although economical, the structure of a book’s text is sometimes illogical. Text lines start in the middle of sentences or wherever the last measure ended. Every line is a beautiful, thin brick, but when taken out of context, it has no sense. These lines can be rearranged to produce random correlations and juxtapositions that can be amusing or perplexing. Similar to concrete poetry, I may use words to depict shape and build riddles that, if solved, can serve as koans.
When Doyle was a little kid, his babysitter made a game out of reading the paper horizontally across the rows to come up with strange combinations. This is how Doyle first encountered this style of pun. His Hypertexts now advance that game by bringing the text to life in a separate three-dimensional space. Doyle’s modified book artworks link apparently irrelevant lines of text together, much like actual hypertexts, to provide innovative and surreal interactions. They frequently draw inspiration for their formats from the books themselves.
Doyle says, “Some of my buddies are appalled that I am destroying books. “However, I view them as small structures, proofs of the strength of words and imaginative analogies. They represent concepts coming to life in three dimensions and taking on a tangible shape that enables them to throw shadows. My belief that a thought does not simply exist in the ether, but rather creates noise when it arrives on the table, is that casting a shadow is a sign that it is genuine.
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The term “wordplay” takes on a whole new significance in Stephen Doyle’s Hypertexts, a collection of elaborate modified book artworks.
Through these randomised links, his artworks join apparently irrelevant lines of text to produce new and surprising connections.
They frequently draw inspiration for their formats from the books themselves.
As “mini structures, testaments to the power of words and metaphors of creativity,” Doyle describes his book statues.
