However, for graphic designerStephen Doyle, each book offers a unique canvas ripe for visual and textual exploration.
I love languageand languages, Doyle tells My Modern Met.
Cutting up books and reconstructing them is not exactly a rational exercise.
The way that text is composed in a book is efficient, but not rational either.
Now, hisHypertextstake that game one step further, bringing the text to life in its ownthree-dimensionalrealm.
The forms they take are often inspired by the books themselves.
“Notes from Underground” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Some of my friends are horrified that I am destroying books, Doyle continues.
But I think of them as miniature monuments, testaments to the power of language and metaphors of imagination.
I think of them as ideas coming into three-dimensional lifeideas taking physical form that allows them to cast shadows.
“The Prince and the Discourses” by Niccolo Machiavelli
Scroll down to see the incredible sculpture of DoylesHypertexts.
For more about the artist, you’ve got the option to visit hiswebsiteand follow him onInstagram.
Stephen Doyle’sHypertextsa series of intricate altered book sculpturesgives a whole new meaning to the termwordplay.
“The Invisible Man” by HG Wells
Here is New York by E.B.
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” By John le Carré
“Here is New York” by E.B. White
“The Door” by Magda Szabó
“Atonement” by Ian McEwan
“Speak Memory” by Vladimir Nabokov
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
“Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner
“The Waves” by Virginia Woolf
“The Golden Bough” by James George Frazer
“A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis” by Sigmund Freud
“The Reason Why” by Cecil Woodham-Smith
“Frantemaglia (Fragments)” by Elena Ferrante
“Neotribes” by Steve Silberman
