I can't quite remember how I stumbled upon the work of Brian Dettmer but i'm so glad that I did. Dettmer is a New York based artist who quite simply specialises in the creative and intricate deconstruction of books. Essentially he takes a persons creation and then dissects said creation in order to form his own piece of art. Now some may say that this is ruining a perfectly good piece of literature, however Dettmer's work is so much more than that.
Using the process of creative deconstruction, Dettmer reveals the hidden soul of each individual book, physically showing us the whole story upon a single glance. He alters the physical form of information, therefore shifting the prior function thus taking the book down a different creative path.
The first step in this intricate design process is to seal the edges of the book in order to mummify the literature which Dettmer likens to 'a vessel of unearthed potential'. Working through each book chronilogically using careful dissection a story begins to take form. Dettmer can change the history of a book by choosing which images and words to exclude and include to create his personal vision.
Each book is taken on a different creative journey, and by transforming the medium's role Dettmer re-contextualises the original content and the book takes on new meaning.
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