Comments on: Will Ashford’s Recycled Words

By: neal johnson

neal johnson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:58:52 +0000

Yeah, it’s Tom Phillips “Humument” all over… An innocent recreation of another’s art, or just a typical po-mo ripoff? Makes me wonder…

By: L

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:30:35 +0000

I’m trying to figure out how he got rid of the words at the top, leaving only the letter “i”.

I don’t like the idea of defacing books, but if they’re old and are already missing pages, they’re not good for much else. And what would this piece be without the book page? A drawing of an umbrella and a cityscape. That’s been done already, I’m sure.

By: avraamov

avraamov — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:16:38 +0000

i don’t want to sound like a git, but i’m imagining tom phillips might have something to say about it…

http://www.tomphillips.co.uk/humument/

By: Tempscire

Tempscire — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:19:01 +0000

Prettiest book defacement ever.

By: CheeseDuck

CheeseDuck — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:17:28 +0000

Beautiful.

By: Jerse

Jerse — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:31:32 +0000

This is the coolest thing I’ll see today!

By: Nastia

Nastia — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:12:24 +0000

Wow I only saw the city scape reflecting off the water the 2nd time I looked at this, I would’ve like it just as much if it wasn’t on a book page, it definitely seems like a waste

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:49:14 +0000

I like it. It’s a new take on something old. What’s not to like, except for the destruction of old books, maybe.

By: Badjuk

Badjuk — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:40:31 +0000

heh bore bore bore

By: ted

ted — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:48:07 +0000

This is what schoolchildren do in textbooks every day.

Seems like a waste of a book.

By: alison

alison — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:14:56 +0000

Okay I’m kind of in love

By: oezicomix

oezicomix — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:46:13 +0000

come on…. iRain? enough with the “i” stuff already!

By: Rosi

Rosi — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:33:46 +0000

It kind of reminds me of the Library of Wadi-Ben Dahr (not sure if this name is correct), an installation that was in the museum of women in the arts about three years ago. It was a room filled with furniture all covered in pages of books, and containing books filled with real things like insects or jewels against the pages. All the items in it were themed with the pages covering it e.g. the chessboard was made out of Sun Tzu’s Art of War, the umbrella of Shakespeare’s plays etc.
I can’t seem to find out any more information about this though.