Guy Laramee is a thirty year old Canadian sculptor, stage writer, director, painter, writer, and composer. He recycles several old, encyclopedias placed together and carves the surfaces with drills to create landscapes. His works represents the declining of human culture. He chooses old books based on the appearance of the book cover color. He also believes that knowledge is "gained by erosion, not accumulation."
"Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are."
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