Video: Color Pages Like Firebird Wings: Bronia Sawyer Book Sculpture
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We have written about the close connection between books and art more than once: fictional stories read by a person during his life are like wings, on which his imagination can fly even further. This was also noticed by the master of book sculpture. Sawyer Armorwhich transforms the painted colored pages in the whimsical fairy Firebirds.
Armor Sawyer is William Shakespeare's countrywoman, a native of Warwickshire. At school, she suffered from dyslexia (impaired ability to read and write), but struggled with her ailment. Obviously, in the course of this struggle books and texts began to occupy a large place in her life: after studying at the College of Art and Design (as a specialist in photography), she paid great attention to book sculpture … Over the past 6 years, Bronya Sawyer has regularly worked with books and paper, creating color pages small masterpieces.
What bizarre sculptures the artists did not make from thick volumes and book pages! We have already written about the "tower of Babel" from books, and about jewelry; even old telephone directories - and they can be useful for something. But everyone treats books in their own way: someone prefers to preserve the texture of the white with black squiggles of the book sheet, and someone, like Bronya Sawyer, introduces different colors and shapes.
The peculiarity of the artist's method immediately catches the eye: firstly, it is, of course, work with colored pages … Second, Bronya Sawyer makes good use of paper's natural curling tendency: in her words, "by cutting and folding sheets, you can create organic and random shapes." And thirdly, her favorite theme in sculpture is birds: the artist saw an unmistakable similarity between pages and feathers.
Many will say that books are sacred, and making some kind of birds out of them, even beautiful ones, is sacrilege. "The habit of creating is like a drug," Armor Sawyer recalls the words of Henry Moore, thereby justifying his tendency to "disfigure" (or rather, make beautiful) colored pages: the artist works only with books of dubious relevance. Moreover, with the proliferation of electronic readers, it becomes clearer and clearer: a book is not paper and icons on it, but only text.
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