Writers record the thoughts in their minds through words, compile them into books, and share them with everyone. However, the existence of books cannot only be passed down through the form of first-hand or second-hand books. Over the past 17 years, Hawaiian artist Jacqueline Rush Lee has turned second-hand books into book sculptures, allowing people to see another way in which books are passed down from generation to generation. possibility.
Jacueline Rush Lee does not simply carve second-hand books and give them new shapes. Instead, she bakes them in a furnace at high temperatures to "fossilize" the books without adding clay. an alternative cultural relic.
Anthologia 2007
Flutter 2007
Nous Details 2014
Vascellum 2012
Lorem Ipsum III
Crescere 2013
Made In China Series 2012
Made In China Details 2012
Lorem Ipsum II 2010
Bookmark Slice 2001
Cube 2001
In the works of Jacueline Rush Lee, books undergo a series of processes such as soaking, drying, and tightening. They are either as hard as wood carvings, or have a carbonized texture, assuming the posture of a phoenix reborn from the ashes. Or it can be rolled out of paper into a flower-like form, or it can simply be squeezed under the cover of a book and return to its original form similar to annual rings. No matter what it is, after the book changes its original form, although the content of the book can no longer be read, it continues to share its beauty and sadness with the world through the form of sculpture, and continues toTimeless and lasting.
