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Bill Westheimer: Cellulose

Bill Westheimer: Cellulose

SKU: 2022-428.

Cellulose is my lamentation of the demise of paper books in the digital era. The contents of the book is pine wood shavings sealed inside a 3D printed book shaped sculpture. The cover and back of the book are embossed with a tree design. The book is presented in a handmade basswood and walnut box with a velvet lining. The pine shavings represent the materials that go into a real readable book.. My Gutenberg series of 3D printed books deals with the evolution of books and how knowledge may be distributed in the future. Books are evolving into new formats. As they transform into digital media someday they may become unreadable when the compatible devices are no longer available. As they transform into digital media someday they may become unreadable when the compatible devices are no longer available.The content of these 3D printed books cannot be accessed – it is sealed inside the PLA resin binding.

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I believe art should ask questions, not provide answers. The problem with photography is that it shows you what exists. It is much too literal for my taste. My challenge is to take the familiar and make it unfamiliar; to ask a question and begin a dialogue with the viewer. W.H. Auden said: ‘Knowledge may have its purposes, but guessing is always more fun than knowing.’ I don’t capture what is there, but rather I liberate what I see. When my photograph of something familiar makes the viewer see it in a new and different way and use their imagination then I have succeeded. I love to photogram the small things that we often overlook: a weed, or a broken piece of glass. I pursue those things that are rejected, the trash and the detritus, because I enjoy the challenge of finding something exquisite in the ugliest garbage. Like the ancient Japanese Zen monks’ tradition of wabi-sabi – which venerated the ephemeral complexity and beauty of nature?s imperfections – I pursue my fascination with the art of impermanence. I use the objects with the photogram technique to make one-of-a-kind pictures. Without the interference of film and lens I reveal the fundamental nature of the entity itself. Taking the objects into the darkroom, I use their shapes, shadows and their essences to expose conventional photographic paper or old fashioned glass plate negatives that can then be enlarged and reproduced using digital technology and a pigment printer. My personal dialogue with the objects provokes the questions expressed in my pictures. All I ask of the viewer is to join me in my pursuit of the investigation.

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basswood, paper, pine shavings, PLA resin, purple velvet

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http://www.billwest.com

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book 4.875inx3.75inx1in, box 6.125inx5inx2in

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