[image_with_animation image_url=”7482″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Every day, librarians across America are called to respond to book murders. Each homicide case is tragic, but there are few cases more heartbreaking and more difficult to understand than serial book murder.
For years, library scientists, academics, and mental health experts have studied serial book murder, asking why, when there is so much scrap paper and so many pens, why an artist would need to render the flesh from a fully formed and innocent text. Known serial cutters include Brian Dettmer, and Noriko Ambe’s deadly duo super cuttings in team with ED Rushca for “Artists who make pieces, Artists who do books.” Still some serial murders remain unsigned, such as the Nerhol Alphabet I found on pinterest. These diverse groups have long attempted to understand the complex issues related to serial book murders. Only Andrea Myers and Maud Vantours remain on the unbound side of this solemn moral issue. The authors, publishers, and future readers of these now unknowable books have my heartfelt sympathies.
Scrap Paper Artists
Content warning: Merciful, with scrap paper. No books were harmed. Appropriate for all viewers.
Content warning: The writers of this blog do not condone this morally corrupted act. Some of these images illustrate literary texts, and may be inappropriate for younger audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.
“Drawing this way is addictive. I just want to keep addressing every part of my drawing. Time flies. I can’t stop. Been looking at drawings all night and can’t wait to go back tomorrow. I am already sad that tomorrow is our last day.” – Our Provost Lendy Hensley talking about what it’s like to …
Alan Honick contributed a beautiful photograph of his collection of moon snails. His statement described walks on the beach, and how the number of shells found by his friend decreased and eventually ended in the last fifteen years. The shells were beautiful, arranged in the spiral as they grow… or dwindle. The story was simple, …
“No one did more to reanimate the tired old genre of still life painting in the last half century than did Mr Thiebaud with his paintings of industrially regimented food products.” (NYT, 2004) In 2000, Thiebaud told PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that the subject of food was “fun and humorous, and that’s dangerous in …
A trace monotype is made by laying paper down on an inked piece of plexiglass, then drawing a design on the back of the paper. The drawing tool presses the paper against the ink, making a dark line on the front of the paper. There’s often a smudgy look made by fingerprints, and a shadowy …
Book Murderers
[image_with_animation image_url=”7482″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Every day, librarians across America are called to respond to book murders. Each homicide case is tragic, but there are few cases more heartbreaking and more difficult to understand than serial book murder.
For years, library scientists, academics, and mental health experts have studied serial book murder, asking why, when there is so much scrap paper and so many pens, why an artist would need to render the flesh from a fully formed and innocent text. Known serial cutters include Brian Dettmer, and Noriko Ambe’s deadly duo super cuttings in team with ED Rushca for “Artists who make pieces, Artists who do books.” Still some serial murders remain unsigned, such as the Nerhol Alphabet I found on pinterest. These diverse groups have long attempted to understand the complex issues related to serial book murders. Only Andrea Myers and Maud Vantours remain on the unbound side of this solemn moral issue. The authors, publishers, and future readers of these now unknowable books have my heartfelt sympathies.
Scrap Paper Artists
Content warning: Merciful, with scrap paper. No books were harmed. Appropriate for all viewers.
Book Murderers
Content warning: The writers of this blog do not condone this morally corrupted act. Some of these images illustrate literary texts, and may be inappropriate for younger audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.
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